Best Western Tradewinds Morro Bay

Check out at 11 and set off for San Simeon, Rich's choice for tonight's<br>stop half way down the coast. Lots more waves and coastal things along<br>the drive, probably the least exciting part of the pacific highway.<br>Near San Simeon we find somewhere with lots and lots of MASSIVE<br>elephant seals, mainly sleeping on the shore making Rich-like noises<br>and a few fighting in ...

... gotten a late start, but it is just such a great ride. The fog was starting to creep in, so we headed back towards Morro, stopping wherever the camera urge struck.<br> We stopped in Cayucos, the little town just north of Morro Bay. It is a more developed town with tons of antique outlets. You could wander for quite a while in the stores. But we just strolled around the town and headed back to Morro as the sun was starting to dip and ...

... in as we arrived, so we parked and walked out to the rock. I ventured farther, over the rocks and out to the beach below the sea break. When I first started coming here, you could walk out on the sea break, but then someone was washed out to sea with a wave, so now the break is closed. But the tide was coming in, and there were magnificent wave crashes that towered over the break and cascaded down the side. As usual, my ...

... had given us a voucher for a free meal at a posh restaurant called Madeline's. The food was very good and the chef came out and spoke to us for a while. A nice way to end our visit to Cambria. We returned back to the house to pack up, so we would be ready to leave early in the morning for the Santa Barbara mountains. We had booked to spend the next few nights staying in a Yurt on an eco-resort, we were so excited and more than ready for a bit of adventure....!

... we head for LA-hollywood to be exact.it will be another full day of driving. just before this place, we saw sea lions on the beach, heaps of them. and the seals on pier 39 well that was something else! 100's of them all trying to get on not enough pontoons. we had a lovely 1 hour Bay cruise by the way, the fog had lifted by then so we had a good view of everything(that was yesterday as we were too late for ...

All through the night, we heard seals making noises. So in the morning we took a walk along the bay to try to find some. We saw a sea otter bathing himself in the water, it was really cute. Unfortunately the only seals we could see were out pretty far in the ocean. There were a lot of pelicans though.<br><br> In the afternoon we went out on the beach for a little. We didn't have our swim suits on or anything, so we just hung out. The ...

... the fittings, furnishings, and collections of art and antiques, would be near to impossible. Most of the collection is irreplaceable. The art work on the ceilings as well as the decor again astounds us as we wander through the building. Through further doors and up more Spiral stair wells to come out along the "bedroom clusters" These were the clusters of guest bedrooms, for those guests not housed in the Guest houses. Each guest room had two beds, and two bathrooms ...

... We stopped and pulled into loads of them, and also stopped and spent an hour on a fantastic, nearly deserted beach. Evidence of the terrible fires the Big Sur had a couple of weeks ago was only too evident. The Big Sur had been evacuated when the fires broke out just before July 4th weekend, and was closed for 2 weeks. We were lucky to have missed that, we thought!!! We passed many home made signs thanking the fire crews for saving himes and businesses ...

... Janet and Susie came over in the evening to sit by the fire Tom built-it was so lovely!. Thursday, Tom went to play golf in the afternoon and I got to meet Tracie Irvine from Waco who I know from another bird list! Tracie was out in San Luis Obispo for a family reunion and she and her daughter, Courtney, drove over to meet me. What fun! Tracie is such fun-we decided it was crazy for a couple of Texans to have to meet in California but it worked! Tracie operates a ...

... br>left and right. The town of Solvang is a Danish culture community with<br>many shops, bakeries, and art galleris. The town's buildings are built<br>in the design which is set to remind you of Denmark. We visited one of<br>the bakeries here and sampled some of their delicious pastries and did<br>some shopping. We then headed on to Santa Barbara and walked along the<br>ocean and pier, Santa Barbara is a very pretty location.