We head from Yosemite straight to the coast. It's time to be beside the seaside.
We are very lucky to find a lovely campsite in Carmel Valley. It's a great central location to base ourselves, but we have the usual campsite set-up issues!
However, we find that we had a nice lazy start to the day, and have pitched our tent and eaten before sunset. It almost feels like we are on holiday!
It's so relaxing we find that we have plenty of time to just sit and watch the world go by..
... plus we get to take a few photos...
Carmel Valley is a great central location for exploring the coast, and our first trip is to Monterey Bay. An absolutely delightful spot, that we have both said we want to return to. We spent quite a bit of time just watching the marine wildlife, the best being the sea- otters which seem to spend the whole time bobbing around grooming themselves.
We also had a fabulous seafood lunch at Fish Hopper, but there is something very wrong here!
Another trip out was to Big Sur which had some fabulous rugged coastlines to photograph. There were also lots of raptors overhead, which we kept trying to identify, but I suspect that all the potential eagles and condors were actually hawks and falcons. Note to selves, never travel without the binoculars ever again. Ever!
We also spent some time in Carmel itself, which was a very quaint town, and although we thought we saw Clint Eastwood, we probably didn't. (Binoculars would have been handy)
We had a thoroughly chilled out time at the seaside.
Flora and fauna around the coast
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