Ballona Creek

Surprisingly for Los Angeles, parking is free. After you get out, you're standing next to a lagoon that can hold a number of ducks and Western, California, and Heerman's Gulls. Walking past the lagoon you will reach a cement culvert around Ballona Creek. If you walk along the creek, you can go right along the shallow flooded fields along Culver Boulevard for a wide variety of ever-changing shorebirds and waders. Walking to the left will take you to the breakwalls of Marina del Rey and the beach…