Monterey-Days Inn Fisherman's Wharf/Aquarium

... caught up on sleep after San Fran. Up at 9am and headed towards Fisherman's Wharf and looked in lots of gift shops. Rich got tempted by clam chowder so we had lunch on the pier, sitting next to lots of huge pelicans outside the window! Very scary. Then drove down Cannery Row, named after a John Steinbeck novel! Went in a shop that sold things that ...

... br><br>Sumner disappeared quickly up the cliffs and mountains, trying to make it to the top of the falls. He made it to the top to see where the river fell down and struggled a bit coming down. From our view at the bottom it looked like he was properly rock climbing...down. He looked completely vertical trying to come down those cliffs...I'm still not sure that was a great idea, but I bet the view was awesome. Although I missed it<br ...

... had a falafel wrap), we drove down to New Brighton Beach a couple of miles outside town. Unfortunately, as the beach is part of a state park we had to pay to enter, which pleased us no end. We forgot all about the charge though as the beach was beautiful and deserted. Driftwood was scattered all over the sand and out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw one of the bits of wood move. On closer inspection we ...

... me back. Harassment isn't a new idea and so I just do a double check to make sure these guys aren't gonna follow me into the dark, and they weren't, they were just standing together under a streetlamp. So, on and on I go, and I look up to see Lola and I see 3 guys. One with the hood open, working some jumper cables or something, another in the driver's seat, and one standing in the street under another streetlamp. My first instinct at that point was "OH ______!! THEY'RE STEALING LOLA ...

... of course, and witness this rather unusual site. Apparently elephant seals were nearly extinct a few decades ago, but there are now over 15,000 living off the Pacific Coast.<br><br>The signs announced we still had around 250 miles to go to reach LA, so I put my foot down and we sped off. We stopped once more (for an "In n Out Burger" in Santa Maria), and eventually rolled into Nottingham Avenue at 9.45pm. Wow - a LONG day, but very worthwhile.

... ship. but I didn't think i would be able to row or swim fast enough to keep up. But by 5 am Kevin woke up to take his shift, at which point we just turned on the engine and motored the rest of the way in. We pulled into our slip at around 12:30 in the afternoon!<br> It was a beautiful day when we got in nice and sunny and warm! Kevin checked us in with the harbormaster and got us keys! We paid for 3 nights and ...

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... towards the end, one of the small sharks actually stuck his whole head into the fish bucket!). The Octopus also created some very diverting entertainment. He had been given a plastic container, and I don't think they planned on him keeping it! Suddenly we saw a hand entering the water over the octopus, but with the reflection it looked like the hand was emerging from the inside of the octopus! There was also the most amazing collection of jellyfish ...

... Supermaerkte, du kriegst jede Menge Fruechte, und die Erdbeeren auf den Feldern sind auch schon reif. Nun bin ich in Monterey gelandet. Voll die Touristenstadt, aber ganz nett. Ich nehm mir Zeit um die Kueste runterzupedalen, so ganz easy halt. So Photos gibts momentan noch keine, die Librarys sind etwas kompliziert aber das kriege ich schon irgendwie hin, hab ja Zeit.