Actually it might just be our favorite beach anywhere! The sand is soft, there is no trash (except for some old Chumash Indian trash and a few pieces of flotsam), no tar and NO people! Well, very few people anyway - just a few boaters and campers that come out on Island Packers. 
The dunes are beautiful and untouched. Years ago we found these two caves. They change over the years...
Sometimes they are completely open and you can walk fully upright inside and other years you have to crawl on all fours.
Fifteen years ago, when each day lasted 48 hours, we would take a small ice chest down to these caves and sit inside and talk (and drink Pabst Light, because that was all we could afford). We would play with anything we could find on the sand - put sand dollars in our eyes like glasses and seaweed up our noses to be gross (yes, I have pictures of this). The days would last forever and the caves were a favorite place to explore. It was amazing to go back inside after so many years!!
This time we had water with us (and maybe a Sierra Nevada for Jim), didn't put any sand dollars in our eyes or any seaweed up our nose and the afternoon flew by in about 15 minutes...
The cliffs and patterns are as incredible as the beach.
And the trash we did see didn't bother us.
In the windy times in the past, the walk back to the boat was a struggle. We would be walking directly into the wind with sand blowing in our faces and it was cold! Not this day - it was warm, calm and an easy beautiful walk back!
We talked to some other boaters and watched them swim!
We checked out more elephant seals across the rocks on a smaller beach. We sat on the beach until we again had no sun! Then back to the boat for drinks, snacks and an easy dinner of sandwiches. When it got dark, Jim flashed the spotlight in the water and we could see these small orange-red things swimming around. We finally figured out they were "krill", what all the blue whales were eating!
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