Foggy SF Beach Party

On Saturday afternoon, we met with Larry Habegger of Traveler’s Tales. He lives on Telegraph Hill and if you ever get a chance to walk around up there, I highly recommend it. The houses are tight together on a steep hill, connected by wooden walkways. There’s a real community feel to it, everyone knows everyone who lives there. It’s also just a short walk (down another very steep hill) to the lively North Beach area.

After we wrapped up with Larry, Sean and I picked up Jen and made a mad dash over to the beach where Jen was hosting the Sand in My Bra beach party, stopping at Safeway along the way to pick up some firewood and last minute supplies.

Only 30 minutes late, we rolled up to find the Lyons family (old friends of Jen’s) cruising up and down the beachfront trying to find us. After moving the esky down to the beach and setting up with the food and drink, we wondered how many people would show up considering the nasty weather. It was cold, windy, foggy and not at all like a day at the beach.

SF’ers are a hardy bunch though and it wasn’t long before we were joined by Larry and his daughters, Alison Wright, Brad Newsham with his wife Rhonda and daughter Sarah, Gregg Butensky, Joe E and Mavis, Jennifer Colvin and her husband Bob, Amy Scott and her partner Juan.

This being San Francisco, everyone has a website!

The Brady family also arrived to say a quick hello. They don’t have a website, but we let them stay anyway.

Brad Newsham is an old hand at beach parties and he was instrumental in getting our fire started. It was built according to The Way, with some minor modifications due to the weather. In no time we had a roaring flame going that certainly helped more than the beer to keep the cold out.

It was a fun time and great to physically meet some people that I had met virtually through BootsnAll. We donated our fire to the next group of people and left them with the sandy leftovers of our food.

Photos:

Larry

Gregg, Joe E, and Sean

Joe E, Sean, and Jenn Colvin

Jenn C and Brad Newsham, the Firestarter!

Rhonda and Sarah

Mavis

Érne was loving the watermelon

Jen L & Jenn C, caught by the flash

It wouldn’t be a trip to California without a cell phone photo

Sarah thwarted me all night to get a photo of her