Marina Vista Park, Long Beach

5355 Eliot St.

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Two unlit courts with patchy surface, shredded windscreens, and overlapping pickleball lines. So the aesthetics here are not everything you might hope for from the by-the-beautiful-sea sounding name.

Another thing that would be dispiriting if you let it is, you can’t see the water from the court. You can however feel the off-shore breeze, which to me felt either windy or very windy.

I will say there are gorgeous coral trees in the surrounding park which were beautifully red-flowered on my visit. There is also a lonesome, battered-looking backboard that inspired me to pretend I was composing a fine-art photo.

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