The heat wave called for an easy morning hike so Barbara and I headed down to Long Beach's El Dorado Regional Park, the 800 acre nature treasure that opened in 1955. We had hiked the lovely Nature Center in a different section of this huge park in 2019, and were curious what the other sections had to offer. The East section hosted the archery competition for the 1984 Olympics, and the portion we hiked today offers camping, huge group picnic areas with built-in BBQs and sinks, walking trails, a model aircraft flying field, and three fishing lakes over 165.8 acres. As we followed the oh-so-simple AllTrails loop around Lake Alamo, cattails and reeds towered over both of us. We passed some fishermen casting for trout and bass (no luck yet) off open spaces along the shoreline. One nostalgic bonus: we passed a Classic Car Club setting up for their picnic nearby, lining the adjacent parking lot with shiny old Ford, Chevy, and Pontiac models from our teenage years. The ducks and geese gathering in the grassy areas next to the lake kept their distance, only interested in our food carrying potential. But SoCal is a popular tourist location for the winged set, and Mother Nature treated us to a few out-of-the-ordinary avian species that included Hawaiian ducks, Egyptian geese, an egret, and a rare Scarlet Tanager songbird. A pretty walk, just what we needed to escape the city heat, and the air-conditioned drive back to LA capped the morning.