we just got back from santa barbara with
the dogs
and we wanted to share some great things
you could do
with your dogs for a weekend or just for
one day in santa barbara
here are our top seven things you can do
in santa barbara with your dogs
number one you can walk along the beach
with your dog
so um santa barbara is like there's a
huge stretch
of the beach and they have a proper
walkway
sidewalk for pedestrians and cyclists
so it's the perfect place to just take a
walk with your dogs
and enjoy the awesome views there and
there's also a lot of grass too
yeah yeah plenty of grass if you have a
dog like kuma who only likes to
run around and do its business on the
grass
yeah she's that type of dog where she
doesn't have grass like
she won't do her business so yeah so
it's like a lot of like it's like grass
and then
sand so it's great that there's like a
good amount of grass before you get to
the
the sandy part yeah yeah so you could
lay out i mean you could sit down at the
beach if you want with your dog but we
just kind of walked around it up and
down
and we saw people picnicking like and
like had their own glass of like
glasses of wine out there yeah so you
could do that too you could have a
picnic
by the beach front as well so definitely
do that with your dog because
it's santa barbara has like some of the
gorgeous views in california
the weather is amazing too yes oh man
so we went july i'm sorry is it no
august
august 1st and it was in
the mid 70s during the day and at night
it was probably
in the mid 50s uh not
6th mid-60s so yeah so from 65 to 75
it was just perfect weather number two
henry's beach which is also called
arroyo borough
dog beach or beach it's a state park
um and it is a dog beach so there's a
leash side and an off leash side of
course went to the off leash side
because our dogs love
running around in the sand in the water
and
there's also a restaurant there but you
cannot take dogs there because we were
thinking
of maybe stopping by there but yeah only
service animals allowed
but you know i don't think you really
need to go there because the views again
were
so gorgeous here you're right against
the cliffs
we love off-leash dog beaches because
you know the pups love to run around and
chase each other and it's really hard to
do that with a leash on
so to have you know them run around
freely is the best for us
and this beach was gorgeous i actually
like this beach
this dog beach more than carmel for me
but candy still likes the caramel dog
beach a lot better but i like this beach
in santa barbara because we're right up
against the cliffs and i think it's
really cool
backdrop that's a nice nice area i
highly recommend going there with your
dogs if your dog especially if your dog
likes water
oh parking um it was advised online to
go there early
if you want to snag a good parking spot
we thought for uh when we first got
there we thought it was only one area of
the small parking lot but
there is actually more to the left of
the place so
if you don't make it in the first area
that's like really close to the beach
don't worry there's still more parking
to the left okay so we got there at 9 00
a.m
and the first parking lot that we went
to was already getting full
and we just got lucky and found a
two-hour parking spot which is
like perfect time we actually left you
know
uh 20 minutes before the time expired so
two hours is a lot of time still number
three funk zone
i don't know why i don't like that name
i don't like that name either
sounds kind of i don't know like like a
80 year old person was like hey let's
just call this the so i don't know
let's go with the funk sound ladies
oh yeah it just sounds like it's just
cool
yeah i don't know i don't like the name
of it at all i don't like it either but
not to say i don't
like the actual area yeah the area was
really fun
so we wanted to do a wine tasting here
because there's a lot of
places where you can do wine tastings
but the place we wanted to go to that
was really pet friendly and had really
good great reviews online
it was called pally wine they're already
full and
um we put our name on the waiting list
but we still have four people ahead of
us
and it looked like you know the people
that already there
were going to stay there for a while so
so and it was a pretty fairly small
tasting room so i kind of felt like it
might take a while
i know some tasting rooms when i was
kind of researching they actually have
an
hour limit okay oh yeah they do yeah but
we really like this area because again
um a lot of the places around here are
pet friendly so you can take your dogs
to a lot of these places and restaurants
and cafes
not just like wine tasting rooms and as
we were walking along this street
we had a lot of people approach our dogs
and give them so much attention
which they loved i mean they were just
eating up
this attention zoe just kept on giving
pause everybody
oh nice to meet you too and she knows
that people love it so she just keeps on
doing it
and i think it's so cute number four
stern dwarf we decided to go here after
we're like you know what
let's just leave pali wine and go
towards
the sea um because i did see that there
was
a wine tasting there called deep sea
wine tasting we're like you know maybe
we could try out there maybe have a
glass of wine
out with a waterfront view so we started
heading that way
and it was pretty interesting i didn't
expect the bridge to be wood
yeah so this bridge is all made out of
wood not just for pedestrians to walk on
but for
cars to drive on i thought it would be
concrete but yeah i was interested as
always so we just kept on hearing these
creaks and these boards like
moving and you know jiggling like the
nails you can see the nails kind of like
coming up i don't know i was like is
this thing going to fall apart
i mean i felt a little scared but i mean
i'm sure you know
it's fine but as we're walking towards
the
warfare so we're on this bridge uh
gorgeous view yeah
you can really see like the coastline um
and really yeah i'm why we did that
because i wasn't expecting them
yeah me neither we were just like so
focused on wine tasting
yeah we weren't thinking about views or
anything but as we were looking to the
side
like oh my gosh look at the views it's
so gorgeous
um so i definitely recommend doing that
bridge just like walking on it
and uh so as candy mentioned when you
get there
there are several restaurants um and
eateries
so we went to the deep sea tasting room
and we actually did get a table there
was
um a wait list but we actually got the
table super fast
unfortunately we didn't like our area
because we were kind of like
put in the back in a corner where it was
dark
it was like a small little like almost
like an aisle
or a hallway it was not comfortable at
all
horrible views so i'm like why are we
why are we paying for this we came here
for the views
yeah so my recommendation would be if
you're going to go there
make sure you request to be on that top
deck that's facing
the gorgeous views not the one that's
facing the dock like we were yeah it's
the one that was facing exhale
it's facing the ice cream shop which we
went there so leading to that ice cream
shop
fantastic one of the best ice cream um
uh with waffle cone that i've had in a
while
because it's um locally made right i
asked them they said they make them
there
it's homemade there so it was very
creamy so
yeah you know if you don't do any wine
tasting if you don't eat there
you can just have some ice cream and
enjoy the views yeah have ice comes
through the juice and it's a great walk
for the dog
number five a self-guided tour of jeff
shelton's colorful architecture
so you could do a walking tour yeah but
we did a driving tour
because we were actually going back home
and before we left we're thinking you
know what we should just drive around
um those uh architecture structures that
we were talking about
and see if we could just park to the
side and take pictures and sure enough
we could
and plus we could leave the you know the
dogs in the car the ac on while we just
stepped step down the car really
took some pictures and it's not
it's not in the touristy part of the
area so that's why you're never able to
park and then just like take photos
that's like these unique uh buildings or
houses some of them like
were they all houses yeah they were all
houses the ones we saw
yeah i think some of them are like um
business some kind of corporate building
yeah
but the ones that we stopped by were all
homes
yeah and then one person had like a sign
outside like this is a home you know
you're welcome to take pictures
just don't come inside yeah just stay on
the sidewalk yeah
so yeah if we had no idea these are
actual like residences
um and another one we saw they they
actually just came home
from like biking somewhere yeah they're
probably like in their 70s and we're
like oh
we didn't realize you actually lived we
actually saw the owners
yeah that owned the home that was crazy
uh but yeah i thought that was really
interesting the homes were very
different especially one of them with
all the paintings in front
number six exploring downtown santa
barbara
so right now with the pandemic going on
you they have a lot of road closures so
you can walk
along these streets with your dogs a lot
easier than you could before
and the streets are open so you know
they have
where we went on a saturday and they had
some music playing some live music
playing
and the reason why they have road
closures as well is so that they can
have
the businesses um come outside so
a lot of the restaurants you know is
just outdoor dining so
they just have tables lined up outside
where people can enjoy the outdoors
and eat and listen to some great music
so yeah i thought that was like a really
cool fun area to be in and plus
public market too has a lot of great
food options
and we ate at wabi-sabi
which was japanese food excellent place
last but not least number seven
the mill so this area is called the mill
and it has uh different things within
this
area which is like a restaurant a
brewery
they have some design
type of cafe cafe so yeah there's
different things to do at the mill
but we specifically went to third window
brewing they did have uh
beer tasting you can do there but we
didn't do that we just
ate outdoors because they have a nice
outdoor uh
cafe area there they have like a brewery
with like a bar and then on the other
side
is the outdoor patio area where you can
sit and eat
and again lots of dogs there so um
we were in a shaded nice shaded area and
the best part about this place was the
food it was amazing we weren't
we weren't really expecting much because
there wasn't much to choose from
on the menu and so we both kind of got
small things
yeah i just got a side salad and i was
thinking like uh
you know because i i don't know i just
didn't want like a big meaty burger
which that's what they had and i was
like yeah i just want a small salad
and but they had a kid's cheeseburger
yeah
so i thought that would be perfect with
um and they also have belgium fries
yeah they had a small and a large
belgian fight so i got a small belgian
fries and this cheese this kid's
cheeseburger
um just in case it sucked and it was
probably the best burger i've had in a
while and the fries were
awesome it was actually better than the
belgian fries i had in belgium
yeah i agree i think it was better and
my salad
even though it was just a simple salad
that the dressing was perfect
it was nice and light they didn't drench
it and the lettuce has so much flavor
i'm just like to the jack
they just like picked this from their
garden like it was like super flavorful
they provided uh water like in dog bowls
for the
dog so that was nice had some friendly
conversations with people sitting around
us too so it's a great place to just
hang out
so that was our top things to do in
santa barbara with your dogs i hope this
list helped you out
uh kenny did an excellent job
researching everything oh thank you
i tried and we hope you have fun with
your dogs there
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