August is vacation time for many, and while we dutifully hold the fort here in Topanga, our contributors have promised to send us snippets of their visits to places yonder. We welcome postcards from our readers as well! hello@topanganewtimes.com
The Hotel Arcadia
It loomed above the beach like Count Dracula’s beach residence: stark, turreted, treeless, and not exactly inviting, but Dracula wasn’t written yet when the imposing...
PINNIPED PARTY! California Sea Lions
They are fast and powerful swimmers and divers who love to hang out with their friends at the beach. When things are good, it’s a...
OVERBOARD! Yacht Harbor Mania
“Believe me my young friend, there is nothing—absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind...
A Whale of a Tail
Every spring, California gray whales make a monumental pilgrimage from their winter breeding grounds in the warm lagoons of the Sea of Cortez to their...
