Encinitas is a little town located on the Pacific Ocean about 20 minutes north of San Diego airport. It’s just like a 1960′s California beach town. Hand made jewelery shops, the world famous Swami’s Mediation Retreat, more than two dozen yoga studios and spas, a dozen Mexican take-out restaurants, and locals and tourists alike walking around with surf boards give Encinitas a 1960′s feeling.

Ann Dunham is the hostess of a lovely little Bed and Breakfast called the Inn At Moonlight Beach, situated on a hillside overlooking the ocean. Moonlight Beach is the most popular beach in Encinitas, a great spot to simply get some sun, enjoy a picnic, play a game of pickup volleyball, try your hand at surfing or boogie-boarding, body surf, read a book, people watch or simply “chill.”

Every one of the four rooms or suites at Ann’s Inn At Moonlight Beach are decorated in the best of taste in the flavor of a French Beach Inn. Every morning will find Ann baking her guests warm-from-the-oven rolls, croissants, breads and pastries for breakfast.

Many guests at the inn start their day with a walk along the Pacific Ocean. From the inn you can walk for miles in either direction at sunrise and then return to the inn for a delicious home-made breakfast. Swami’s Beach was made famous by The Beach Boys in 1963 and is only a short walk along the sandy beach from the Inn.

If you stay at Ann’s Inn, you will awaken in the morning to the sounds of the of her meditative waterfall. You can drift back to sleep take a walk or jog along Moonlight Beach as Encinitas awakens.

After their early morning activities, guests return to the Inn and relax with a cup of fresh, hot Starbucks coffee and the morning newspaper in Ann’s breakfast sunroom, or enjoy their breakfast outside in the sunshine next to her soothing waterfall.

In the evenings, guests enjoy romantic moonlit walks on the beach. Others prefer to relax on the front porch of the Inn with a glass of wine while they enjoy the twilight over the ocean. When guests are ready for bed they can snuggle down under fine cotton linens and down-filled pillows and let the soothing songs of the waterfall and distant surf lull them to sleep.

For other lodging accommodations, vacationers will find that Del Mar California Hotels and Carlsbad Bed and Breakfasts are plentiful in the Pacific Ocean beach towns of northern San Diego.

Moonlight Beach is just a 4 minute walk from the Inn at Moonlight Beach. Stone Steps Beach, Beacon’s and Grandview beaches are a short walk up Neptune Avenue or the beach, north of Moonlight Beach.