Beach Craving!

I have a serious beach craving right now. I want to go to the beach like...now!

<3 Venice Beach

I really want to go to my favorite beach in the world, Venice Beach, California.

To me, there is so much to love about Venice Beach.

The picture above is one of the graffiti walls. Graffiti artists can obtain a permit and spray paint the walls, trees, trash cans, boats, anything within a certain area. It changes up all the time. I love it!

The Boardwalk. 

The boardwalk is the most interesting and unique part of Venice Beach.

All of those tents are shops, and on either side of the boardwalk, people are selling anything from jewelry, clothes, your name on a grain of rice, paintings, you name it. Mind you, every 5th shop (almost literally!) is a pot shop. lol

 It's legal there, for medical purposes. It's legal where I live too, in fact, there are 7 on my street!!! It's pretty humorous actually.

All in all, the Boardwalk is a place you have to visit if you are in the LA area. It is the number one tourist attraction in Southern California.

Then of course, we have the actual beach part of Venice. It's beautiful! It's a certified blue wave beach! A lot of beaches in California are polluted and, mucky and green...it's pretty gross, but certain beaches are blue, and Venice is one, officially!

Another good thing is most people go to Venice for the Boardwalk, so the beach is hardly ever SUPER crowded, like say, Oceanside. (I should do a post on Oceanside!)

Venice Beach also has man-made canals which you can take a real Gondola on, all kinds of restaurants, Muscle Beach (an outdoor gym where Arnold Schwarzenegger actually used to work out), outdoor basketball courts, tennis courts, volley ball, dunes, it's amazing. If you are in LA, stop by Venice!!!