Is The 27.5 Million Dollar Grant For Annenberg Community Beach House A Beautiful Beach Find?

A $27.5-million grant from the Annenberg Foundation and years in the making. The partnership between the California Department of Parks and Recreation and the city of Santa Monica proudly opens The Annenberg Community Beach House. The Beach House is a new public facility on the site of the former Marion Davies-William Randolph Hearst estate and is now open to the public with no membership required.

In the 1920's William Randolph Hearst built this beach house for his mistress, silent film star Marion Davies, the three-story mansion hosted many luminaries of Hollywood's Golden Era. It then became the Private beach home to the Sand and Sea Club, a posh celebrity beach club for many years before the city of Santa Monica took over the property.

Beach House Finds encourages everyone to make a trip to this historical and beautiful beach house in Santa Monica.

You can visit the Beach House at 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, California.

Why Not Book A Nautical Holiday Yacht Charter?

This week Beach House Finds has Yacht Charters on their social networking minds. With the cool spring rains, cold nights, longer days, and the push of spring flowers many of us Beach people are thinking luxury. With family or friends, there is nothing in life like a crewed private motor and sailing yacht charters in the Bahamas, New England, Florida, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Mexico, South Pacific, Greek Isles and anywhere in the world. Activities like scuba diving, snorkeling, skiing, windsurfing, and jet skiing all are part of the toys on your beautiful chartered sail boat or motoryacht.

Beach House Finds recommends Nautical Holidays, a full service CYBA approved charter broker specializing in handling all the details so you don't have to! And The Real Housewives of New York, and The Real Housewives of New New Jersey think...special event planning for weddings, corporate events and private parties!

Is A Beach House In Your Families Vacation Plans This Summer?

This Beach House Finds is located in Santa Barbara County and is a great summer beach house rental for you and your family. The Dolphin Den is a Beach House Finds rental located directly on the sands at Miramar Beach the most private and desirable beach in Montecito. This luxurious Beach House rental has four Beds and two baths that sleeps 8, where you can step outside the bottom floor right on to the beach. Each floor of this unique beach house has 180 degree beach and Channel Island views from its balconies. This Beach House Finds has a kitchen with two new full-size fridge and freezer units, a new stainless oven, stove and microwave.
If you want to wake up to an unobstructed view of the sunrise and the lapping of the waves just a few yards from your bedroom this Montecito Beach House rental is for you. Here you can kick back in your beach chair with your laptop as the house offers Wireless Broadband while your children play on the beach. You can expect to see schools of dolphins, flights of pelicans and surfers during your vacation at this beach house.

Dolphin Den is available starting June 12 to September 8.
Rates: $800 to $1,200 per night not including taxes
The minimum rental period is 7 nights.
Discounts may be given to multiple week rentals, please inquire.
All rentals have an additional cleaning charge of $250.
The cleaning deposit is non-refundable and due at time of payment.
A refundable damage deposit of $2,000 is due at time of payment.

Contact: http://www.santabarbarabeachrental.com/contact.htm

Looking For A Car With Jen Ne Se Qua Appeal?

At Beach House Finds, Spring is in the air and the thoughts of driving a classic roadster is filling our heads. You know that feeling of sun, wind, and sea one takes in, with the zest of life by the sea.

Living along the beach one desires a car that has that jen ne se qua appeal. Perhaps something powerful and more stylish than you have ever had before! Well Beach enthusiasts, it is the BMW Z4, a classic roadster with stylish flair, rear-wheel drive, and retractable hardtop. We found driving along the beach with the roof down, this two seater roadster offers a refreshingly intense experience of sunshine and the wind rushing by. And driving with the hardtop closed it provides all the comfort of a sporting coupe. The BMW Z4 is the re-birth of the roadster that is sure to make your life at the beach, fabulous!

Why Perivolas on The Greek Island of Santorini Is Like No Other Place On Earth

Attention Sophisticated Beach House Finds travelers, Perivolas Traditional Houses is like no other place on earth. The world-class small luxury inn is perched high on the cliffs above the Aegean Sea and is a romantic hideaway with its own private Garden of Eden. The most charming village on the island, Oasis is a stone throw away and offers a tranquil oasis far removed from the stresses of everyday life.

Guest can experience a breathtaking cliffhanging view from the stone terrace of each house. The meticulously landscaped grounds provide a mixture shade and sun. The bright white of the buildings and the cool green of the trees with geranium, fuchsia and bougainvillea is a Greek island utopia. It is a place to come for a mental detoxing.

The meditative silence is enriched with the sound of the waves lapping on the volcanic shore. Perivolas' infinity pool, which appears to merge with the glinting blue waters of the see, completes the refreshment of body and soul. A Wellness center featuring steam bath, sauna, open-air Jacuzzi,and massage facilities for beauty and health treatments is all part of the sophistacation brought to your guest experience.

GR-847 02 OIA SANTORINI-GREECE

TEL (0030) 22860 71308,

FAX (0030) 22860 71309

e-mail: info@perivolas.gr

What Beach Resort Must You See Before You Die?

Photo Credit: Heidi Schumann for The New York Times

Are you wanting to take a low tech vacation where there are no televisions and no telephones in the room? On the west coast, of St. Lucia overlooking the jagged peaks of the island’s famous Pitons, is Jade Mountain. A luxury high end Beach House Finds, resort where the view has no fourth wall with a breath taking views of the twin peaks of the Pitons. Oprah Winfrey declared the Pitons one of the top five sites to see before you die.

To get there you must arrange Travel to Hewanorra International Airport (American Airlines and Delta currently fly here) which is about an hour’s drive from most hotels. Many resorts will arrange a car service, or a helicopter transfer ($170 per person) one way to avoid the hairpin roads. The most popular way to travel between towns or resorts is by boat or water taxi, which is a great way to appreciate the island’s dramatic cliffs and diverse terrain.

Jade Mountain -a double room with an infinity pool starts at $1,450 January to mid April

$1,150 a night in summer

758-459-7000; http://www.jademountainstlucia.com/

Come Sea It

Santa Monica Seafood Market and Restaurant Opens

Santa Monica Seafood,

1000 Wilshire Boulevard, at Tenth Street, Santa Monica

310-393-5244

http://www.santamonicaseafood.com/

Santa Monica Seafood is owned by the Cigliano’s, a family tracing its California roots back to the end of the 19th century. John Deluca, arrived from Naples, Italy in 1898, and settled in San Pedro where he started life there as a fisherman. John's oldest son, Jack, began assisting his father in the family business at age nine, and by sixteen, he owned his own fishing boat. He left fishing five years later to start a new venture, a wholesale fish business called State Fish. Jack started this company with his friend Gerald Cigliano, who would later become his brother-in-law and the grandfather of the current generation of Cigliano’s running the Company.

The families first location was on the Santa Monica Pier, where they sold shark, halibut, tuna, white sea bass, sardines, anchovies, live lobsters and the "catch of the day" to the hungry tourists visiting the pier. The city of Santa Monica asked the family to move in the late 1960’s, due to increase vehicular traffic on the pier. In 1969, the Company relocated twelve blocks east to the corner of Colorado Boulevard and 12th Street, which served as its principle processing facility and corporate headquarter until April, 2003. .

As each child reached adulthood and stepped forward to join the business, a new opportunity presented itself to expand the Company. This led to the construction and opening of a second distribution and processing center in Orange County in 1985 with a state of the art complex in Rancho Domingues, which houses their entire wholesale staff, the corporate and sales offices as well as a commissary which prepares soup, special salads, and signature recipe menu items sold in the Company’s retail stores. In 1997, the Company opened its first retail-only site in Costa Mesa. This store combined an extensive display of seafood with a full kitchen in which hot meals are prepared for patio eating or take-out.

The Cigliano’s have carried on the tradition of their great Uncles Jack & Frank which has assured their continued success: hard work, business savvy, and a strong philosophy. Today February 16, 2009 is the Grand Opening of a larger new Santa Monica Seafood providing the highest quality product at a fair and reasonable price.” The owners have also added wine, cheeses, fresh cut flowers, European condiments, and delicious ready-to-go desserts to the new spacious location. This is an incredible Beach House Find, you've got to Sea!