Week, 2 June 14-20

Thursday saw us at Fullerton markets - a mostly produce and giftware market in downtown Fullerton held every Thursday evening, not terribly inspiring but a good beer garden. Without wanting to sound alcohol obsessed - the local beers are surprisingly good and much more like English beers, most bars have 10 or so beers on tap and there are plenty of boutique breweries, one of which Doug took us to after the markets.
 Our first weekend in Southern California (SoCal) and the weather is warming up. Every morning there is a thick fog (which to our discredit we first thought was a pollution haze!) which is sometimes called the marine layer as it is a sea mist that rolls in every night and keeps things cool until it burns off at about noon.

Saturday we were up early to scour the Yard Sales for a bike for Keith - not early enough to have any success as used bikes are keenly sought after. Yard Sales/Garage sales/Estate Sales are everywhere on Saturdays - tempting to buy lots of "stuff" but know we can't bring it back to Australia. We ended up going to a bike shop and buying a very nice used mountain bike.
So on Sunday with both bikes in the van we headed to the nearest beach - Newport Beach.

 Newport Beach still plenty of morning sea mist but no shortage of bathers.

 We took a cruise around Newport Harbour - lots of expensive waterside houses to see, bit like doing the Mooloolaba harbour tour just different peoples houses. We were impressed by by the Coastguard chase boat with three 300HP outboards.

Lesley and her distinctive green backpack riding the boardwalk at Newport Beach - no compulsory helmets for bike riders over 18yrs old.

But there is no high ground for 100 miles!