The Getty Museum is an interesting complex that celebrates right angles and Italian marble paid for by syrupy oil money. Art plays a role, too.  The view of the LA Basin and Pacific beyond are just sublime.  You really have to see it to believe it.  

Which you will not on this trip. Weather conditions did not cooperate.  

The stone had to be shipped in from Tivoli.  People from all over come to walk the grounds, work, or visit the many exhibitions. 

It’s free to visit, but you must pay to park.  A dubiously necessary tram takes you from the parking area to the main complex.  

The Getty Family amassed their fortune in oil and refining.  

Turn to Malibu, the water is freezing cold but these hardy souls were undaunted. They look like penguins, but in fact are humans waiting to catch a wave.  I never got into surfing, as it feels suspiciously like exercise.