Camping on the beach

Well, this weekend has been pretty great so far. On friday I don't have classes and decided to go camping with two other people from the program at the last minute. WE packed our backpacks and headed about 2 hours north to a small fishing/hippie town. The bus dropped us off and after walking for a while without encountering a campsite we decided to take a little rest on the beach. We plopped down and sat for about 3 hours, talking, playing in the sand , and people watching. The beach was incredible and the water sparkled. After a while we decided to buy some food and then go searching for a place to camp. We ended up getting some veggies to stir fry along with rice and avocado . After walking for a while we found a perfect place to camp on a bluff about 10 feet from the ocean. The only downer was all the trash thrown around , but otherwise its probably the best place i've ever camped. This beach was so secluded that we felt that we were the only people for miles . We set up camp and attempted to get a fire started. Maren and i hauled over a HUGE piece of wood becausee we didn't have an luck finding something smaller. Needless to say, after about an our of working at it, the fire never started. So we got back to cooking using our only head lamp as light. ....in the midst of cutting veggies, the lamp went out. great. So we ended up cooking and eating int he dark...the food tasted wonderful. The next am we ate oatmeal and then walked down to the beach. we ended up playing in the sand for 3 hours before heading back. What a great mini weekend. I suppose thats all for now. I'll post pics later.
Chao!
Cristina