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The flat-as-a-pancake row-crop fields soon became interspersed with vineyards and eventually all we could see was vineyards for miles around. Then the agricultural areas ended and we went through a huge oil field area with a big refinery and hundreds of oil pumps dotting the hillsides.
We passed through a number of nondescript towns; the only one I recognized was Soledad and I have no idea why. We stopped for lunch at a rest ...
Monterey Bay
... Hotel so got settled and down for their happy hour ..... Wine and nibbles platters, talked to more locals a reunion of the San Fransisco Firemen they were in their 70s but interesting to talk to, by the time they were getting all pretty merry we took the kids off for some dinner around 6.30pm at the local fish shop, Don often has a wander about while he has his cigarettes outside so he checks ...
Rafting up with the sea otters
... we drove north again and had dinner at Moss Landing, which is a nursery site for sea otters. We saw many swimming up and down the channel and one fishing for and crunching up crabs just as the sun was setting. We also got to watch large flocks of pelicans fly over us in meandering ribbon formations. And that made for a great last sunset over the Pacific Ocean. Our next glimpse of the Pacific will be when we are back in New Zealand, where you can only see the sun rise over it.
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Beetlebug Tour Days Two and Three!
... also some very posh houses along there!
It was good to the see The Lone Cypress, which is around 250 years old and has probably withstood many a Pacific storm. The ghost tree was pretty strange too.
Once I was back in Monterey I went to see the shops along Cannery Row, some fun ones along with the bizarre too!
After supper I played games with 4 year old Tyler, his mum Martha and and Clint who was travelling by ...
Its Been Awhile...Still Alive And Traveling LOL!!!
... Redwoods State Park. Camp among the redwoods I thought...nope it was full. Second up was Honeydew campground and this is where I failed map reading again lol. Just west of the State Park was a little village called Honeydew. Didnt know it at the time but to get there you had to travel through 30 miles of VERY steep winding clifflike dirt roads. Boy was this a dumb move. When I get there and see this lil campground the first thing that came to mind ...


