Carlsbad Camping

If you been camping you know there are many interesting stories such as this one. Here is a brief recap of Carlsbad Camping I found.

Upon returning to our campsite I told everyone about the dead animal… and, of course, the kids all needed to climb up on the fence to see it. [better from way up on the bluff than up close like I did] When lunch-time rolled around, the stench of the rotting seal began to waft through our campsite every so often. It was not something you want to smell every 5 minutes or so. A park ranger was at the restroom area and I stopped and asked him what the procedure was for removing the carcass. He explained that the life guards take care of such things… but they have their hands full with an abandonded sailboat that was almost washed ashore. - We watched in amazement as a life guard swam out about 100 yards, hooked up a line to the front of a 20 ft sailboat and towed it out past 1000 yards… backstroking… by himself. Not sure why the boat was abandoned, they towed it away later. - We packed up our beach gear and headed down to the beach for the rest of the day.