my name is Jeanie and this is my husband Vince in 2022 we became proud new owners of our first truck
camper and have been enjoying many fun road trip adventures with it in this series we are headed to
the California coast for a two-week truck camping trip in our last episode you saw us wake up next
to Joshua Tree National Park make the crazy and scary drive through LA to get to the ocean
and finally arriving to our first Oceanfront campsite just off the Pacific Coast Highway
I hope you can hear me the tide is high so where we're sitting right here
the ocean is right there and it was way down there last night that's pretty loud so last
night we slept with the window open in our bed area I kind of showed you footage this morning
and we could hear the waves crashing all night in our bed oh it was so nice and comfortable
we didn't have the heat on but at about five this morning traffic started to pick up and it
started to get pretty loud with traffic in the camper the noise machine wasn't covering the
noise anymore so we didn't set an alarm but we were both up by seven o'clock and we have a seal
who's like coming in and out right in front of us he's down there now but he's beautiful every
time I try to get a video of him he's gone so he's way too fast for me this morning I finally got him
he's actually hanging out for more than a second oh that's awesome
they look like little dogs like their heads the plan today was this morning we were gonna go down
to the state park and go uh tide pooling but the tide is high right now so we're just gonna hang
right here and we're gonna make breakfast here and just hang out until we feel like
leaving there's Dolphins now oh my gosh what a morning ocean burned dolphins for my campsite
wow so I did read in the reviews that they do see like dolphins and the sea lions and stuff
here but of course you just never know if you'll see them yourself well we just had both of them
this morning since we're having a breakfast here I went and grabbed our table to set up
yeah that's the perfect breakfast nook
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am and we're heading out now and go I don't know tide pooling or whatever we feel like doing
um so we're gonna head to the El I think it's El Criollo I'll put on the screen here
um state park that's where we're headed
um supposedly there's a good tide pool in here um so yeah we're gonna check it out first time
we've ever came to California we came up here to Malibu and I remember we did a bunch of Thai
pooling here it was so fun just walking around looking at all the little sea creatures and stuff
thank you
okay so we went past the state park and yeah the water was just still too high so we drove into
Malibu and we're on the Malibu Pier right now just walking enjoying the sights it's beautiful
we have been here before but it's just good to revisit it because it's been a long time
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it's free but they have a parking lot here and it's 15 for parking we parked on the
street we're real close so just adds up we are at the Malibu County Mart area look how cute
the truck camper is in downtown Malibu totally Blends in right but the reason here is because I
paving at acai bowl and every time I get to like the ocean that's like what I want like
when we go to Hawaii and stuff i just crave acai bowls we're going to a Sun Life Organics
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bowl and Vince got the Hawaiian Bowl the toppings look the same but I think of mine has like almond
milk and apple juice and blueberries Vince's doesn't but look at these coconut flakes
they're enormous and they have a nice sitting area right here
we have dug into the acai it's delish absolutely delish do you like yours yeah it's really good
made it to the state park finally and Tide is down so when we got here the person checking Us in
um he said low tides at three o'clock and it is almost one o'clock but he said it's already like
pretty low so yay tide pooling if you've never done it you gotta try it it's really fun just go
walk around in the typos and just see what you can find I know last time the Vince he found a
starfish and there's all sorts of little creatures we're walking underneath Pacific Coast Highway
right now to the beach here's the tide pools we just kind of walk around on all the rocks out here
just look for a little fins found a sea slug oh I gotta come see it okay
it's um kind of like a treasure hunt you know I'm just kind of walking around looking for
sea life that's that's what we're doing all right right there that black thing that's a cease look
he's kind of moving look at him munching
it's crazy I don't know what that is but it's it's so pretty you see life
look at all these rocks look at all the shells just stuck to them that's amazing
there's a crab he's going in and out of this rock now he's coming up the side
wow
it's amazing way out here it's a huge starfish just laying on the side of the Rock so you can
see it my hair's been and I'm like right here that's a huge sharp fish some caves here too this
oh look at that are you going through nice
so now I have to try and get through there
all right I just climbed through the hole so right there's the hole I just went through and
right there upstairs just to get down here probably could have just taken this chance
pretty shallow yeah cool the Vince just found a lobster oh it's dead just uh the shell of a
lobster I mean I wouldn't expect you to pick up a live lobster so that's why I was kind
of wondering what was going on when I look over and he's carrying a lobster I'm like uh
wow that's like probably what a hundred dollar piece of lobster right there you're holding
Vince just found another Lobster shell not the real thing so there must be lobsters in here
because quite a few shells and we did hear others talking about they were looking for lobsters
so the State Beach must have lobster somewhere
because I found the Lifeguard his name's Vince the California lifeguard of Malibu thanks for
joining us on our little afternoon of Tide pooling we found some pretty decent sea life
I mean for the most part it was not too bad it's like that we're back at our Oceanfront
campsite and just like that it is sunset hour again and it's kind of chilly out I
had to go get my winter coat there's a cool breeze coming off the ocean I know he's like
what are you doing you look like you're from Colorado well I am from Colorado but I feel
truly in California right now so another sunset tonight should be beautiful foreign
we're gonna have some salad um some ahi tuna which we decided we're gonna actually sear it so we're
gonna have some seared ahi tuna and then a bowl of clam chowder tonight so this is gonna be great I'm
hungry so tomorrow we are leaving this area and heading north up the Pacific Coast Highway to a
new area that we have never been to and dinner is served look at that ahi tuna salad clam chowder
impeccable looks amazing and I just opened the window we can hear the way the waves crashing
so it might be dark out we can't see it but we can hear it and kind of smell it
there's so many people surfing I have to remember if it's a neighborhood Walmart
don't go to it only four dollars oh my gosh it is so beautiful here
is a nice site so the truck camper is just right behind this tree Sandy Trail up bam it's the ocean
so you're just like digging down into the sand and just pulling out clams