(WQ) Los Angeles, California has two famous beaches, Santa Monica and Venice. The sprawling megalopolis and its main interstate freeway terminate there. Drive west and you'll hit the water soon enough, a sparkling bay full of millions swamping around the Hyperion Water Treatment Plant, where our sewage goes before being dumped into the same bay. Upscale Santa Monica has a pier and many trendy shops and restaurants.
Come for the water, stay for the bikinis. Cali attracts beauty and money
Venice is the seedier side of the tracks with lots of street performers and pot shops, lots of homeless urchins and beach bum hippie addicts. And there are usually tons of tourists most of the year, particularly in the summer. But not this summer. Is it too hot, too scummy, are there too many homeless now, too much lawlessness, too much police abuse? Who knows. Here's a report from the asphalt boardwalk that is Venice, named such for its mostly dry and polluted canals with no gondolas. Most of the world will one day see it, because it seems everyone comes to LA to see Disneyland (which is actually in Orange County) and our fine beaches, which improve going north to Zuma and up PCH (the world-famous Pacific Coast Highway) and going south to Hermosa and Laguna in The OC.
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