Ocean Pacific Lodge Santa Cruz

... our bag of Poppycock!   We drove through Monterey up Highway 1 and followed the TomToms directions to the Ocean Pacific Lodge in Santa Cruz. The clouds cleared and it was blue skies and sunshine by the time we arrived. We were a bit ...

... had been made and we were looking forward to getting back along the wild coastline. We rejoined the 101 at Santa Cruz and from there it was smooth sailing to our destination, Monterey.  The last part of the trip took us past ...

The start of this week we visited Santa Cruz and saw the seals sleeping and fighthing on the wharf and the giant Coastal Redwoods in Big Basin that has since been badly affected by fires sweeping across an area of 15,000 square miles. We motored ...

... for me to stay here and work for awhile after I am done with Uni. Napier reminded me a lot of a comination of Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz. It has that small beach town atmosphere, but with lots of shopping and amazing art, and the town being in an ...

... below and the pelicans above, we turned into big kids for a few hours whilst enjoying a game of crazy golf on the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. Thursday 3 August Drove from Santa Cruz to Monterey Bay. As we drove south, we stopped several times to appreciate ...

... cabin.  Not a bad day at all!   The next morning we headed to San Francisco.  We decided to take a lunch break in Santa Cruz.  It was a quirky town filled with odd shops and restaurants.  We do believe that the "beach bum" way of life was ...