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Ocean Beach is a beach along side the western coast of San Francisco. It has been for me a great place for rest, relaxation, reflection, and much much more. I’ve been going to the beach for as long as I can remember, but I noticed that I’ve frequented the beach as I get older. It’s something about the crashing waves that makes me at ease. The repetitive motion and sounds of the water is quite hypnotising. The hypnotising noise is so hypnotic that it draws me easily to fall asleep, block out all the other noise around, and just paves the way to meditate on life.

Ocean Beach has just about been always good to me. It’s a great place to park the car and people watch, to sit back and relax, to take a walk or even bring out the old bicycle and ride along the 4 mile or so stretch of road. Sunsets at the beach are just mind-boggling on a clear sunny day.

The times that Ocean Beach can be a bad place to visit are when the fog rolls in and salt water air is just thick, cold, and soaks your skin with a thin layer of salt. Other horrible times you don’t want to be at the beach are when windstorms reach the coast and sand is just blowing all over the place; getting pelted by sand in the face is no fun. Sandstorms are sometimes so strong that they fill the Great Highway full with sand that they have to close the road to traffic and have to use bulldozers to clean up the mess.

Recently, this year I’ve back to the ocean for a bonfire, to nap, a photo shoot, to eat, walk around, kite flying, watching water sports, and even to witness a friend’s baptism. Overall, the Ocean Beach may not be the most beautiful beach in San Francisco, but it is a great beach that is accessible by car, bus, bicycle, and foot. It is one that I can always go to whenever I’m wanting time alone. If you can’t find it while visiting San Francisco, just keep heading west and you can’t miss it.