Miramar beach is one of my favorite places in Santa Barbara. Because I live right by there I go all the time now, i’ll bring my dog Bronx and we’ll walk up and down the beach for what seems like forever.

In the future I would love to travel around the world to exotic palaces but I could never imagine living anywhere but here. Santa Barbara and the beaches that line our coast are absolutely amazing.

Personally I think that the sunsets at Miramar are the best during the winter, but there is nothing better than the long nights in the summer. When its wam out i’ll take my dog to this beach and he’ll play in the waves and come back super sandy and smelling like the beach, he loves coming here almost as much as I do.

Recently they have rebuilt the “Miramar,” I haven’t been yet, but from the outside it looks beautiful. I think that this hotel is good and bad, it is good because it is another beautiful attraction on my favorite beach, but its bad because then there is a lot more “traffic” which ultimately makes the beach less peaceful.

I think that this beach is the prettiest at night. Because there are houses all aligned along the sand, as soon as it gets dark all of the lights on the houses light up the beach again. The silhouettes of the trees and the ocean makes it look like a painting.

To the left side of Miramar, past all the rocks is a little cove, called Sharks Cove. When I was little my dad and I would walk along the whole beach all the way to this little cove and eat sandwiches and jellybeans, that was one of my favorite childhood memories. I will never forget this beach and one day I would love to live right on it, ands wake up every morning to the beautiful veiw.

Thanks for reading, “Miramar Beach,” this weeks addition of Hawkes Tales. Comment and like is you enjoyed this post, and stay tuned for next weeks blog!

-Haley Hawkes