Today we explored the beach and the town by walking first south beyond the pier. The sand beach disappears the ground rises and there are rocks and cliffs. The houses are packed in to have a view and in some places the path along the shore has been washed away. We had a picnic lunch on the beach and enjoyed some beachwalking north and some reading time on the beach. We took a short trip to a nearby shopping center with a camera store so I could get a battery charger for my camera. I had packed the wrong charger for my camera. It had rained in the morning, but by the time we walked it was sunny. We enjoyed the sun all afternoon. We got back to the hotel in time to enjoy the sunset. Then we got takeout food from a nearby restaurant to take back to the room to watch the election returns. I was prepared for the final results to go late into the night so I was pleasantly surprised when it was all over at a reasonable time (for people on the west coast). We felt we were seeing history in the making.