Since the open­ing of the new ocean side bike­way from the Rin­con to 1/2 mile south of Mus­sel Shoals there have been signs on the old road/bikeway dis­cour­ag­ing our rid­ing there (see the last image below). Dri­ving by in the last week I noticed a large new park­ing lot at the end of the old road and fig­ured there must be a tun­nel some­where near it or why all the parking?

So on this morn­ing’s ride to Ven­tu­ra I poked around and found the tun­nel. It is just below the first beach access point south of Mus­sel Shoals off the bike­way. As I was think­ing, there were no signs of dis­cour­age­ment on the route I had cho­sen. You can see a visu­al sto­ry of my fun explor­ing with com­men­tary by click­ing on any of these pho­tos then “slid­ing” through them.