Dockweiler Beach*

South of Marina del Rey and west of LAX, Dockweiler Beach is often skipped over by beachlovers headed south to the more pleasant sands of Manhattan Beach or Huntington Beach. But Dockweiler Beach holds a secret weapon: concrete fire pits in which you can build legal bonfires until 10pm.

Unfortunately, that makes Dockweiler VERY popular on Saturday nights, which was when we decided to try to have a nearly-end-of-summer BBQ the weekend past. So a note of warning to anyone planning the same: 4pm is not early enough. Maybe try 1pm and let me know how you get on...

The lack of a BBQ pit didn't stop us from feasting on tofu, tapenade, chicken katsu, corn and edamame salad, cookies, cake and doughnuts. And while the huge party next door (with their own ginormous BBQ they must have brought from home) played American football, we played footie (soccer to the locals) and volleyball as the sun set.

* I often forget to split the non-food, LA-related posts off from my usual crap at akatsuki talks rot. So this wee Dockweiler thingy ended up there by default. Fixed now.

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