Category: Margaret

Today we (probably) went on the last “family adventure” of the summer. We went down to Big Sur and the Bixby Bridge.

We have been to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk a few times this summer.

Spent father’s day with the family. Went down the coast from Half Moon Bay to Santa Cruz with the necessary stop at various beaches and to get pie in Pescadero.

For our blood outing this year, Katy picked elephant seals at Año Nuevo. No blood this year like we saw last year. We did see one very quick fight. The seals can move reasonably fast, but only between long periods on napping and only it seems like 10 feet. It seems like we will have to go back in a month or so and see it when there are more seals their and when the babies are plentiful.

For our last trip with Katy this summer, we chose another jaunt up the coast north of Santa Cruz. This time in search of tide pools. We went to Bean Hollow and Pescadero Beaches. The most interesting find was a tide pool with 2 Moon Jellies in it. They did not seem too happy.

We went exploring up the coast north of Santa Cruz. Katy took us to her favorite beach, Panther Beach. We later made it up to Pescadero and had our pie at Duarte’s. We stopped a few times along the way for strawberries and other stuff we didn’t need.

For father’s day we went to the aquarium then down to Bixby Bridge. Along the way we played around on the rocks near the ocean. It was a nice father’s day for me. We ended up inn Carmel for lunch.

We went to castle rock with the Bigall’s. Climbed around on the rocks a bit, put up the slack line.

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We had a great time going whale watching in the Monterey Bay. It started out kind of what you would expect. We saw otters and seals like you can often see from shore. When we got out just a bit, we saw lots and lots of Rossis dolphins (no good pictures though). Then we went a bit further out and saw Grey whales. It turns out you spot whales by the spouts of water as they breathe in the distance. The grey whales would come up for 4 or 5 breaths then go under for about 5 minutes. As we were getting done with the last set of grey whales, we saw 2 sets join up to make a set of about 5. We then high-tailed it to what our captain suspected was Killer Whales. We got there in time to see the pod of 5 Orcas hunt and kill a seal. (It took 30 minutes or so.) Margaret got a great picture of the final impact (gory).

Of course, we got a few pictures of Katy.