Encinitas California is blessed with 6 miles of gorgeous beaches, eleven of them! Whether its surfing, swimming, scuba diving, boogie-boarding, sunning, reading a book, jogging, volley-balling or just basking in the serenity of a secluded beach, Encinitas is a great place to be 12 months a year.

If you like to work out, you’ll find what you’re looking for at Stone Steps Beach. You can run these stairs 5 times every morning and be in the best shape of your life. These steep stairs lead down from the top bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean and offer fantastic views to enjoy while you work out. At high tide the ocean comes right up to the bottom of the stairs. At low tides, the beach is wide and sandy.

Swami’s Surf Beach, forever immortalized in the Beach Boys Surfin USA, is just five blocks south of Moonlight Beach on historic Highway 101 and still draws the finest surfers in the world on a daily basis. Great scuba diving is just offshore from Swamis at the Encinitas Marine Life Refuge, North San Diego’s underwater park.

Moonlight Beach is just a five minute walk from where I stay when I visit: a delightful little Bed and Breakfast Inn called the Inn at Moonlight Beach. Three world class beaches are within a mile or two of the Inn at Moonlight Beach, all within walking distance or a brief drive up Neptune Avenue.

Anyone can learn to surf by taking surfing classes with world-famous Kahuna Bob, an icon in Encinitas. You can find him by Googling Kahuna Bob Surfing.

Moonlight Beach is very popular with visitors and locals alike because it has lifeguards, a great kids playground, spacious parking lots, safe play areas for kids, clean showers and restrooms, beach-gear rentals, a little snack bar and a world-class wide sandy beach.

Following are three websites with helpful hotel and B&B information when you visit San Diego, Encinitas or other surrounding communities: Carlsbad Bed and Breakfasts and Del Mar California Hotels.

Author Hunefeld is former president of a Carlsbad training corporation to follow his love of exploring the ocean to study seabirds and marine animals. For more information visit: Encinitas Hotels or Del Mar Beach Bed and Breakfast.

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