🧑‍🎄🎄Christmas🎅🌲Ocean 🌊Hike🥾Purisima Coastal Trail 🥢Dinner Chinese🥡

Hello Ocean Lovers, If you don't have any plans on 🧑‍🎄Christmas Day🎅🌲 Let's go for 💚 Green Exercise a wellness hike meet new friends, enjoy the nature and the beauty of the Beautiful Ocean views and healing sea for our physical health and mental well-being 😇

🎄 Christmas Ocean Hike – Half Moon Bay Coastal Trail 🌊🥾
✨ Event Description:
If you don’t have big family plans this Christmas, come join us for a peaceful and heartwarming Christmas Ocean Hike by the sea. 🌊💚

We’ll enjoy a refreshing hike along the beautiful Half Moon Bay Coastal Trail, soaking in ocean views, the sound of waves, and the spirit of the season. 🎅🏼🌲 It’s a wonderful way to celebrate Christmas with good company and nature’s beauty.

Let’s make this Christmas simple, joyful, and memorable — outdoors, together, by the sea. 💖🌊✨

Cowell-Purisima Trail, just south of Half Moon Bay, is a 3.6-mile gently graded path that winds along bluffs where farmland meets the Pacific Ocean. It’s a part of the California Coastal Trail, which will one day span the entire length of the state. This area contains both beach and coastal scrub ecosystems. Keep your eyes open for harbor seals, pelicans, hawks and wildflowers along your way.

It's an easy-to-moderate hike with mostly flat, wide, gravel/dirt sections, but has a small section with elevation change as it crosses Purisima Creek. The trail offers scenic views of the Pacific Ocean, farmland, and abundant wildlife, with access points at both northern and southern trailheads.

Trail details
Length: 7.2 miles roundtrip (3.6 miles one-way)
Difficulty: Easy to moderate
Surface: Wide, gravel and dirt path
Elevation: Mostly flat, with a short, steep descent into Purisima Creek's canyon
Features: Ocean views, farmland, harbor seals, pelicans, and wildflowers
Season: Year-round, but fall is particularly nice
Wildlife: You can often see harbor seals, brown pelicans, and hawks

This segment of the CA Coastal Trail runs parallel to the Pacific Coast along what used to be the Ocean Shore Railroad. The railroad itself was in operation for just 15 years before it was driven out of business in the early 1920s by the automobile.

It's truly a destination trail. It offers sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean, access to several beaches and excellent nature viewing. Bird watching is quite good and a popular activity here. Red-tailed hawks, blue herons and red-winged blackbirds are spotted frequently, and large hawks can often be seen perched on benches and the trail's split-rail fence. Half Moon Bay State Beach is also home of the world-famous Mavericks, a surfing spot Pillar Point that's visible from the trail.

*Meet 12:30pm and *Hike Time: 1pm
Address: Cowell Ranch Beach Access Parking
18501 S. Cabrillo Hwy, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
GPS: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iKuGhgpoXR1TxntW9
Parking: Free and along Highway 1

Level: Easy
Length: 5-6 miles
Time: 2.5-3 hours
Elevation gain: 398 ft+
Route type: Out and Back
Exposure: Sun
Views: Amazingly Beautiful
Parking: Free
Dog: No!
*Dogs and horses are not allowed on this specific trail to protect the wildlife and agricultural land.

Bring Smiles for Miles!
Water, beach blanket, dress for the weather, by the ocean wear layer, snacks...
Wear hiking shoes & Bring beach walk shoes, sandals or bare feet break time at the beach...

Encouraging carpooling if you know each other well for everyone's safety. Please contact each other in a private message not on the message board. Thank you! https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/w8bsv9

After the hike, we’ll have an optional group social dinner at a local Chinese restaurant 🍜🥢 — a cozy way to end the day together with good food and laughter.

*Requested contribution suggested amount $5-$20 to keep the club going!
​*Note: Thanks for joining our wellness club event, it does take time and money to make it happen. To support/keep our group alive and active, You can help! Dr.Heidi kindly asks for a contribution, accept in person.
Your contribution will help us cover our costs and make our Meetups going even better.

Our meetup events have a very positive impact on people's lives, people meet, fall in love💘 meet new friends, HAPPY, better health, less stress, anxiety, depression, isolate being alone and got extra bonus for LOVE ​💞

⚠️ Please Read Before Joining:
These hikes and group dinners are hosted voluntarily and with love for the outdoors and community. Participation is completely voluntary, and everyone joins at their own risk and responsibility.

👉 We kindly ask you to review the event details carefully — including directions, trail descriptions, and dinner spots — before joining.
Trails are part of nature and may not match everyone’s preferences. Dinner venues are selected based on group size, availability, and location. We do our best but can’t guarantee personal favorites.

🧡 Most importantly, come with an open heart, positive energy, and kindness. Let’s enjoy what we can control — good company, fresh air, and meaningful connections.

*DO NOT ATTEND if you're experiencing any cold or flu symptoms, have a compromised immune system.

*Hike at YOUR OWN RISK. Open trails aren't necessarily free of hazards--by entering the wilderness, you assume responsibility for your safety and must use good judgment.

*Participation in this event is strictly voluntary! The event host/organizer assumes no responsibility for any injury, damage, or loss you may incur. You join and hike entirely at your own risk.

*LIABILITY WAIVER: By signing up for the wellness walking/hiking event, you hereby release its organizers, hosts, and participants from any and all liability, claims, demands or causes of action that you now have, or may have in the future, for illness, injuries, damages, and/or economic loss of any kind or nature, arising in whole or in part out of the activities, advice, or information contained herein. You agree to full responsibility for your own health issues.

*DISCLAIMER: By participating in this wellness hiking event, you understand that Meetup event Host/Organizer assumes ABSOLUTELY NO responsibility and you have to assume all at your own risk of injury, damage, and economic loss, without limitation, and release host/Organizer of all liability.

*We are an intermediate hike group. Please be ready to keep up hiking with us from 5-8 miles without any health issues.

If anyone wishes to join our hike team, please answer the RSVP question every time for everyone's safety in the group. If you are unable to send me a message confirming that you are in good health and you are able to hike 5-8 miles without health issues we CANNOT approve you come to the hiking event.
*Please don't just walk in. Thank you for your cooperation!

I'm looking forward to meeting, hiking with you and making good memories together.
Yours in good health! Dr. Heidi💝

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