San Clemente and all of South Orange County, CA has GOT to be one of the world’s greatest places to live.  Not only do we have the ocean a couple good Tiger Woods drives away from where we live on Camino Capistrano in North San Clemente, but it is also about 20 degrees cooler in the summer than, say, Irvine is.  Plus, we are about 6 degrees warmer than inland during the winter.

Most people have to drive across much of Orange County to reach the beach.  Not us!  We San Clemente, Dana Point, Laguna Niguel, Capistrano Beach residents just happen to own real estate here that’s literally MINUTES from the beach.

And what beaches we have, too.  We have several state beaches within a few minutes drive of each other, and many county and city beaches, plus many city parks right by the ocean.

Then there’s the two ocean gems that everyone here just loves….the nearly quarter-mile-long wooden pier in San Clemente, and the fabulous yacht harbor in Dana Point.

While perhaps not WORLD-class attractions, both of these sites overwhelm you with their inherent style, beauty and grace.

When my Realtor/Broker wife, Debbie Ferrari,  has out-of-area home buyers visiting here and she is driving them around showing them the area, she ALWAYS shows them the incredibly lovely pier and harbor.

She especially makes a point of driving them up that steep hill that traverses the cliff in Dana Point Harbor.  You end up at the top near the Chart House and from there the view of the harbor below is so stunning that it almost seems like a surreal Disney set for a movie.

I will report periodically on more aspects of Orange County life, but visually, it’s hard to beat the San Clemente pier and the Dana Point Harbor to represent truly exquisite sites to make our real estate even MORE valuable….!!!!!

In the San Clemente, CA area, you just cannot find a better selection of wine or spirits than you can here:

Bob’s Fine Wines
470 Camino De Estrella, San Clemente, 92672 -

(949) 496-3313

Not only is the place stacked floor to ceiling (well, almost) with the region’s most carefully selected wines from the esoteric and rare, to wines from lesser aging and culture.

Rob, the owner, is the guy who does the first big wine booth each year as you head for the pool area at the big “Taste of San Clemente” event at the Tennis Club just off Calle del Cerro.  Likely, you cannot stump him about wines and he is there most days.

At night, another great Oenophile, Nolan, takes over, and he, too, knows his rare and common wines.  They are also some of the nicest guys you will ever know and are always in a good mood.

The store also has a wide choice of spirits, candy, soft drinks—even exotic kinds of root beer and ginger ale (I LOVE ginger ale, so does my husband, Bill Koelzer)

So, next time you are having the boss over for dinner, or hosting a party or a real estate open house for Realtors somewhere in Orange County, drop by Bob’s Fine Wines first and tell Rob or Nolan that you read about it here.