Crossing Sands Marina (Flickr) – click any image for full size

Fellow Brit Geoff Qunnell posted an image of his club and boat slips at Richmond Landing, which forms a part of the Crossing Sands community and estate, and it served to remind me that while I started exploring the estate earlier in the year, I never actually got around t completing my explorations or blogging about them. So I set out to put matters to right.

Operated and managed by Little Anwyl (LittleUnicorn Meredith) and her partner Q Anwyl (Kejwla Anwyl), Crossing Sands is an estate of 32 regions, mostly residential homesteads, which have been designed as a themed estate with a distinctly Californian tone to it. Community focused, it offers a range of attractions to residents and visitors alike, including motorbike and car racing tracks (one at ground level, the rest up in the air…