Saturday, January 14, 2017

Winter at the Beach

Over Christmas break we went down to Monterey one day.  We walked along the rocky coast, played in the sand, climbed on rocks and played in tide pools.  It was maybe in the mid-60s.  Not too cold but there is sometimes a stiff breeze from the ocean.  Monterey is so beautiful!

Hanging out by this whale statue by the walking/bike path.

Scott helping Emma along at the bike path.

And here are just a bunch of pictures from our adventures.






Everyone had fun exploring on the sand



Grant found many treasures



Emma had a good time although she didn't always want to admit it.

We played on the big rocks by Lover's Point for a while (no pictures of that) then someone got bird bombed and I had to take them to the bathroom to get cleaned up.  :(  Those pesky gulls!

We walked from Lover's Point back to the seals by the Stanford research center near the aquarium.

It's fenced off to the general public there so the seals like it.
They look just like little rocks and seaweed clumps but if you look close there are tons of seals on the beach, sunning themselves.

Exploring some tide pools.


We had to climb up and down some steep rocks to get to these tide pools.  It was getting late in the day too.  It was a beautiful day in Monterey.

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