Day 10. Port Hueneme to Hermosa Beach. LA 70.7 miles

We knew today would be a difficult day because we were approaching the urban sprawl of Los Angeles. Another beautiful, sunny day but as we left early,  the air felt lovely and cool. A quiet back road took us past a Naval Airforce Base, before we found ourselves again on Hwy 1.  We passed beach after beach, families already there enjoying their Sunday break, surfing is certainly their favourite sport. We made Malibu in good time passing some very expensive looking properties, gated  big entrances, made you wonder who lives there. We passed a field of American flags, presumably to  commemorate 9/11.   Santa Monica next, this is a very wealthy area, we had planned to stay in Venice but decided to go on further. We were on a beach path then ran for 20 miles making slow progress due to other walkers, jogggers, skateboarders and cyclists too numerous to mention. I have never seen a beach so long or so broad, it just went on and on. People watching had never been more fascinating. We had to make a short detour inland but missed our turn off, ended up going round in circles for a while. This seemed to get to Murray and as there were no signs of motels anywhere, and time was getting on, he was not a happy chappy. We eventually picked up the beach path again and asked some locals for advice, they pointed us to a couple of motels so all's well. LA is huge, cities within a city, at one time building over three storeys was forbidden so it spread out and out. Everyone seems to love the  outdoors but who can blame them with this warm, sunny climate and massive well kept beaches.,