This would be a long day trip, or maybe overnight, but in Venice Beach area there is a dog park that has a fenced walkway to the ocean where dogs are allowed to swim/run off leash. The nice thing about this park is that it has a cleaning station.
Closer to home, Flagler Beach allows dogs on leads. We have used a 30-foot line to let our Golden swim and mess about in the sand. I have heard that after 5 pm people let their dogs run free. But it's supposedly a big fine, so we never tried it.
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