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January 24, 2006
Imperial Beach sunset
This is Imperial Beach (IB), California at sunset. This is where I grew up - I did not realise at the time how lucky I was to live where I did. Cool, isn't it? That big wooden thing is the IB pier - it used to be bigger, but one of the winter storms knocked it down and they rebuilt this more compact version.
IB is a sleepy town despite being its location and has managed to avoid all the massive buildup that other beach communities have seen over the last twenty-thirty years. The only tourist event of note is an annual sand castle building competition - it was not such a big thing when I lived there. Anyway, it is a cool place and I was happy to be back, even if it was for a short time.
I went there with my brother and sister - we had a coffee at one of the restaurants just off the beach and walked around for awhile talking about how things had changed etc. It was good fun.
Here is another picture of the pier from earlier in the day. It is amazing how few people there are...
