Avila Beach

We may have a winner this week.

Meanwhile, on this opening hour, I guess there's a connection to Avila Beach.

During the second half, David Wiseman and John Giesen are back with us in the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility.

Let's talk about the new Diablo Canyon seismic report.

Is that your vision too, Robin?

Absolutely.

I think that we do so many things and we do them well that we don't want to, you know, Avila Beach Golf Resort is amazing.

But sometimes if I didn't know the area, I wouldn't automatically know that that's a place I could have a wedding or a concert or things like that.

And in the budget... which is a whole other thing.

I got a bunch of things in the budget for San Luis Obispo County, but one of them was $500,000 to San Luis Obispo County to do the planning and permit preparation for a trail along Avila Beach, from Avila Beach to the pier.

And then that will hook up with Bob Jones, and then hopefully that will hook up to trails into Diablo Canyon over time, and that'll be a wonderful benefit for the people of the region.

We are in conversation with State Senator John Laird giving us an update about everything happening in Sacramento.

So I'm going to tell you a quick story.

When I was down in Avila Beach last winter, I'm caught off guard by some seagulls making some noise outside the van.

And it was actually a day I was feeling like I missed him because that happens.

Oh, yeah.

And, uh, that year produced around 48 inches of rainfall in San Luis Obispo, one of the wettest years we've ever seen before.

More significantly, though, it produced these, uh, very powerful, uh, southwesterly swells that, uh, basically destroyed the Union Cal pier there in Avila Beach and damaged many other piers up and down the California coastline.

And that was rebuilt by Union Cal and became the Cal Poly pier.

Um, now El Niño's not a guarantee.

I was looking at videos of cozy cabins for like reading retreats, and then I went back to my 40th birthday, um, folder in Airbnb, and it's a bunch of stuff that I'm never gonna go to like Nantucket and shit.

But there's one ne- kind of close to, um, Avila Beach.

It starts with a C.

Why am I drawing a blank on the name? My phone's charging in another room.

Okay, well, it came up on my California post, and I was like, this is the coolest thing ever.

I had to look up where Avila Beach is, which is by San Luis Obispo.

And it was a full-on rodeo on the beach.

Like, the stands, everything were set up as if it were a Western rodeo.

My opinion is that Atascadero should be the center of everything.

We are the closest town to the coast between Avila Beach and Salinas.

We should be highlighting that we're the gateway to everything.

We should be highlighting our history.

Where exactly are we talking about? What is Wild Cherry Canyon?

So Wild Cherry Canyon is about 2,200 acres, and it's near the community of Avila Beach.

If you're at Avila and you head out to Port San Luis on Avila Beach Drive and you go as far down as what people call Fisherman's Beach or Dog Beach, it's on your right-hand side.

It's past the San Luis Bay development.

If you go to Flying Flags, you're too far.

And Kara, for folks just tuning in, let's just give them a quick reminder.

What is the great news?

The great news is that the property known as Wild Cherry Canyon, just outside of Avila Beach, is now conserved.