点评:Our 10-day road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway from San Diego to up past San Francisco included stopping at Manhattan Beach because that's what a trip up the PCH is, stopping at beaches, looking out at the coastline, driving through touristy towns, and some regular towns too. So this beach was your typical California beach with a pier, as a few of them have. This pier has a small, free aquarium at the end of it, which wasn't open when we were there, and I wouldn't go in it anyway because I can't stand to see fish in prison for no good reason. And is there ever a good reason to put fish in prison? Well, I guess maybe those orcas who are biting our boats, but aren't we kinda trespassing on their property, polluting their home and whatnot? Maybe they've got good reason to bite our boats. Anyway, I loved this beach because it was vast, it was clean, we saw a large pod of dolphins swimming by, flipping and flapping in the water. Fishermen were on the pier and they're not supposed to do overhead casting as the signs on the pier state, but they were doing just that, so watch your head when you walk by a fisherman. At the public restroom you might overhear some very funny conversations like the one we heard: a father talking to his young son. "Stop touching that, don't touch that, why are you touching that? Do you want to go home with grandma?" Whimpering, "no." Three seconds of silence. "Stop touching that! Why are you touching that!?" When you leave the beach and hit the nearby streets, there's legal jaywalking in the crosswalks -- I've never seen that before. The stoplights all turn red and all the cars have to stop and all the walk signs light up and you can cross diagonally! Wish we had that in my neck of the woods.
翻译:我们沿着太平洋海岸公路从圣地亚哥到旧金山进行了为期 10 天的公路旅行,途中在曼哈顿海滩停留,因为太平洋海岸公路之旅就是这样的,我们在海滩上停留,眺望海岸线,开车穿过旅游小镇和一些普通小镇。所以这个海滩是典型的加州海滩,有码头,其中一些海滩有码头。码头的尽头有一个小型免费水族馆,我们去的时候没有开放,我反正也不会进去,因为我无法忍受看到鱼毫无理由地被关进监狱。把鱼关进监狱有什么正当理由吗?嗯,我想也许是那些咬我们船的虎鲸,但我们不是有点侵犯它们的财产、污染它们的家园之类的吗?也许它们有充分的理由咬我们的船。不管怎样,我喜欢这个海滩,因为它很宽阔,很干净,我们看到一大群海豚在水中游过,在水中翻腾和拍打。渔民们在码头上,码头上的标志表明他们不应该在高空抛竿,但他们就是这么做的,所以当你走过渔民身边时,一定要小心你的头部。在公共卫生间,你可能会听到一些非常有趣的对话,比如我们听到的:一位父亲在跟他年幼的儿子说话。“别碰那个,别碰那个,你为什么摸那个?你想跟奶奶一起回家吗?”他呜咽着说“不”。三秒钟的沉默。“别碰那个!你为什么摸那个!?”当你离开海滩,来到附近的街道时,人行横道上是合法的——我以前从未见过这种情况。红绿灯都变成红色,所有的车都必须停下来,所有的人行道标志都亮了,你可以斜着过马路了!真希望我们这里也有这种东西。