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Day 30 - Monterey - California
... picture for our night's stay we headed to Monterey. After a day of winding roads we thought our legs could do with a stretch and walked through downtown Monterey and stumbled on a 1950s car show, complete with Californian retro rock band, so hung out there for a few tunes for a while. Then we wandered along the wharf and had more delicious fresh seafood for dinner at Crabby Jim's. A long and busy day, but all fantastic, great to see this part of the ...
Discovering Monterey
... back towards the site, and found ourselves at Nob Hill shopping centre. The name did amuse our minds for a short while and seeing that we were quite a distance from the site, we studied the map to see if there were any shortcuts we could take. The map in the guide book did seem to indicate that there was some sort of park that we could possibly cut through. Checking that our proposed route was possible Garry asked a lady at the pedestrian crossing who agreed that it should ...
Monterey Road Trip
... No sea otters spotted inside the aquarium, nor out on the viewing platforms looking into the bay, we headed for a restaurant on the pier hoping this may be our chance to spot them playing offshore, but no such luck... It just wasn't meant to be. I guess I'll just go see the sea otters at Taronga when we get home. No big. So what else to do with an afternoon free in Monterey than to continue our tour of West Coast playgrounds? The ...
Day 7 Mendocino to Monterey
... Gate Bridge Built in 1937 with 80,000 steel cable. Enough to wrap around the equator 4 times. It's quite a spectacle. A view of Alcatraz prison right in the middle of the bay. No longer used now but Alcatraz prison notorious in its time. Only 3 prisoners ever escaped - noone knows what happened to them. Maybe the never made it across the bay? Surely the only way out was to swim. Even the prison warders lived on the the 'rock' ...
Monterey
... s cold! I knew SF would be cold, but not Monterey too – I miss vegas heat! Eve though it was chilly we still sat on the beach for a while before heading home for some chowder on the balcony. This time jojo tasted it and admitted it was good – she’ll be eating a bread bowl before the week is out! ...