I’m sure a lot of my love for Baker Beach stems from having grown up in Southern California where, most any day of the year, I could enjoy a hot lie in the sand, a cool, uplifting swim in the ocean, and a general enjoyment of seeing bodies of all shapes and sizes wearing very little and having as nice a time as I. The beach, to me, always seemed, as though by definition, a place of perfect happiness. Is there anything better than playing in the water or squirming about in the sand? So I always find it surprising how few San Franciscans choose the beach over, say, Dolores Park.
I used to go to Dolores park all the time but have found it, of late, to be, oh, what shall I call it…saturated. It’s still a good time; don’t get me wrong. I love all the people and activity of it, the lazy drinks and the inevitable, chance encounters. It’s just that I don’t understand why it commands so much pull over the beach which, as I’ve said, seems such a natural choice on a beautiful day.
As I can see, Dolores has a few things going for it over Baker Beach: It is generally warmer than Baker Beach (a point made moot by the astounding heat wave of this weekend). You can wear hip outfits there (as opposed to practically no outfits at the beach). It has tradition.
Look familiar?
Does this look familiar? It’s the same scene as Dolores gets every day, with ample sunshine, drinks between friends and animated characters carousing the day away.
And then there’s this well known scene. A young man, blissfully passed out, surrounded in a mold of beer bottles that his more artistic friends have set about him in perfect human outline.
I’ll end with a question for my friends: Really? Cause we called like twenty of you, and pretty much all of you said something about errands or going to Dolores. Look how much fun this is. Really?
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