Ship Wreck Trail

With Kaleb graduated and looking for a job and I, the only one working, money was definitely tight. It didn't keep us from finding cheap adventures, though. We can always find a place to explore and we usually only had to pay for gas.

This time we found a hiking trail on the beach called Ship Wreck Trail where there are remains of a..... Ship Wreck! Of course we had to check it out!

The trail is in Rancho Palos Verde, the ship wrecked in 1961 due to some bad weather and not being able to get the boat back into the water. 

It didn't take us long to get to the general area, the internet directions were unclear so we were driving around neighborhoods until we found the trail.

The view from up top was absolutely beautiful!!

We had to hike down a super steep trail. We don't have the best hiking shoes so it was a little difficult.

It was a little hard to hike on the beach because it was all rocky. We had to be extremely cautious about where we step.

The ocean breeze was extremely nice! So nice to feel the misty air!

It was about a 2 1/2 mile trek to the ship wreck. We thought we would never get there. 

There were dozens of crab traps all along the shore that most likely came from the ship.

I was walking ahead for awhile and wasn't really paying attention to where I was stepping when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye! I about jumped out of my skin, then I realized it was a baby seal! It was adorable! I wanted to help it out so bad. We googled what to do and all the results said it is best to just leave them alone because of diseases and such. It was sad to leave the poor thing.

After hiking for so long we got extremely hot and sweaty! But we made it to the main wreck sight!

There were rusty pieces of ship everywhere! It was pretty cool.

This was the main big piece, there was also a large seal that had died awhile ago that was near here that smelled like rotten eggs so we didn't stay very long!

It was such a fun hike! Nice to get some fresh air and exercise!

February 8, 2015