Edhat Staff
By edhat staff
Visit Santa Barbara, a nonprofit that promotes tourism and film in Santa Barbara, released a new video highlighting the local destination attractions.
The video was published last week and aims to emphasize the natural beauty and creative industries, displaying Santa Barbara as a destination of wondrous beauty.
“There are seaside escapes. Then there’s a gentle crescent of California coast connecting breathtaking beaches, soaring mountains, verdant vineyards, elevated enclaves and eclectic communities. You see, there’s beautiful…and there’s Santa Barbara Where the sea and mountains feel as one, the sun feels more golden, and the valleys overflow with a bounty of color,” the caption reads.
What do edhat readers think?
In what appears to an homage to the…unpleasantness…at St. Anthony’s Seminary some time back, there is a slightly unnerving scene at the 2:30 mark in which a priest is gazing adoringly at a very young boy. What’s THAT all about?
I thought it was very good, I’d like to visit if I wasn’t born here. Murky tar filled water? I have stood on our Carp bluffs at high tide and looked down at water so clear we could see fish swimming. Surfer boys, complaining one is “looking at his friend lovingly” ? Friends smiling at each other, nothing wrong there.
Your stories about instant buyers is incorrect. The vast majority of buyers take a while to find a place they can afford, enjoy, or tolerate for the sake of being here. It is a very difficult real estate market and always has been for 90% of the population.
They forgot to show all the homeless camps and the beginning showed a dad and son in the redwood forest. Tourist need to be aware there is no redwood forest in Santa Barbara. Also it’s not as clean as depicted in this clip.
Hard to swallow…
There is a very lovely, mature redwood grove in the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
Yes, we have a redwood forest at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. It’s beautiful. You should visit it sometime!
Of course, not shown is the millions of deralics homeless, sky high housing costs, dining and Santa Barbara’s main attraction = drunks with bars on every corner .
If there are redwood trees there the size of bamboo stalks .
Yes, bring your family here as depicted in the video and see the drunks stagger from one bar to the next bar . Great for your kids to see !! Otherwise, truly good video .
RE: Redwood Grove – Santa Barbara Botanic Garden website: “The Redwood Forest is like no other place in the Botanic Garden. Cool and serene even on the hottest summer day, the towering grove of coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) is one of the Garden’s most memorable places. Planted in the flood plain of Mission Creek, whose waters sustain their rapid growth, the oldest trees date from 1926. Carpets of redwood-sorrel (Oxalis oregona,) and wild-ginger (Asarum caudatum) intermix with ferns to form the understory. In spring, the beautiful flowers of California rose bay (Rhododendron macrophyllum) and western azalea (Rhododendron occidentale) brighten the lush green landscape.”
What an overstated pile of BS… I love they way they show the ocean and the next clip is a woman swimming in crystal-clear water- Or the clear ocean shot of a kelp forest that was from Santa Rosa Island… They will be in for a rude awakening when they hit our murky-tar-infested (natural seepage) waters. Yeah, overstated and over dramatic Cello music too- LMAO!
It’s nice to be reminded of the beautiful place we live. No place is perfect. And everything beautiful has it’s blemishes. Lovely video.
A bit of a missed opportunity, if one truly wished to show the incomparable beauty of Santa Barbara. I found the video very lacking, in color and substance…SO many bright, beautiful gardens, festivals, architecture, markets and scenes in this city.
Yes, it was probably shot over a few days time and is definitely a tourist/visitor video. We know the beauty here, both the obvious and hidden, that’s all that matters!
Sequoia sempervirens are also in a lovely grove, in Stow Grove Park, Goleta!
typical pretty vanilla perspective, so white people can enjoy it.
First, there aren’t a million people in all of SB County let alone that many homeless people. Secondly, stay out of the small lower State St area of concentrated eating/drinking establishments if you wish to avoid the drunks you refer to. Lastly, if it’s so horrid here, PLEASE LEAVE !!!
Nice visuals. Horrible music and dreadful narration. What team if artsy people thought this is appealing to a broad spectrum of people? Make a video for ‘regular ‘ people.
Pretentious and irritating!
Lets not forget the thousands of complaining rich self entitled elderly people and know it all Nancy’s that are turning this once local beach community into a kook town.