Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Why Encinitas Is World Famous

By Terry Hunefeld

The little beach town of Encinitas is located in North San Diego and boasts more than five miles of rugged and sandy shoreline with beautiful beaches - nine of them! You can swim, surf, read books, run, jog, play volley ball, or just relax because Encinitas has it all.

If you like to work out, you'll find what you're looking for at Stone Steps Beach. You can run these stairs 5 times every morning and be in the best shape of your life. These steep stairs lead down from the top bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean and offer fantastic views to enjoy while you work out. At high tide the ocean comes right up to the bottom of the stairs. At low tides, the beach is wide and sandy.

Swami's Surf Beach, forever immortalized in the Beach Boys Surfin USA, is just five blocks south of Moonlight Beach on historic Highway 101 and still draws the finest surfers in the world on a daily basis. Great scuba diving is just offshore from Swamis at the Encinitas Marine Life Refuge, North San Diego's underwater park.

Moonlight Beach is a only a four minute walk from a wonderful little Bed and Breakfast Inn called the Inn at Moonlight Beach. Stone Steps Beach, Beacon's and Grandview surfing and bathing beaches are north of Moonlight Beach, all within walking distance or a brief drive up Neptune Avenue.

You can learn to surf by taking a class at Beacons Beach from Kahuna Bob, a well-known icon in Encinitas. Bob's classes are fun and you really do learn to surf.

Moonlight Beach is often called the beach with everything because it has lifeguard towers, a children's playground, big parking lots, play areas, fire-rings, showers, restrooms, beach rentals, a great little snack bar and a beautiful wide sandy beach with lots of volleyball courts.

San Diego and Encinitas have many great accommodations. Here are some informative websites with useful lodging information: Bed and Breakfasts in Carlsbad CA and Hotels in Del Mar California.

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