Dumont Dunes

Saturday thru Wednesday we camped out and rode quads at Dumont Dunes.

The whole family at Dumont
Kyle with his nephew

My mom came up for a day and we even got her to ride.

Camping at Carpinteria Beach

Kyle and I have been wanting to go camping for the past couple of months, so we got reservations at Carpinteria Beach near Santa Barbara, packed up the truck and headed out for a three day weekend.
Our little campsite, and I mean little. These ones available for tent camping are very small and very close. But we had fun.Our first night there we were woken up at 3:30 am by the sound of something scavenging through our food. With flashlight in hand Kyle unzipped our tent to find about 6 raccoons in our ice chest and Tupperware bins where we were storing our food. We chased them off, got rid of the crumbs and wrappers they left behind so they wouldn't come back and waited for their return so that we could throw stuff at them. These were pesky and persistent little suckers and we quickly learned to lock up all of our food in the truck.

You can see their grubby little hand prints on the edge of the cooler.

Enjoying the nice sun and warmth down at the beach. We took lots of naps and just relaxed this whole trip.

We drove the 12 miles to Santa Barbara for a half day where we walked the pier, Paseo Nuevo mall district and had dinner at a Thai restaurant.