After a gray and rainy day yesterday, today turned out to be absolutely beautiful. I wanted to take advantage of that, so I grabbed my camera and headed down to El Dorado Nature Center in Southern Long Beach.
When I was about a block away (or so I thought), I noticed a park with people feeding birds by a lake and plenty of free street parking. I figured I’d stop there, take a few photos, then just walk over to the nature center. One and a half miles later, I was still walking. Yeah, I misjudged it pretty bad.
Still, when I finally got to the nature center it was great. There were plenty of shaded trails next to lakes and streams. It felt a lot like walking through a forest. I took the one mile path, and was feeling pretty good until I remembered I still needed to walk all the way back to my car. I’ve never been so happy to see a car in all my life. I do want to go back and take the 2 mile trail sometime soon. I think I’ll park closer next time.
You can see some of the photos of El Dorado Nature Center here.