Pacific Coast Highway

We left Carpinteria on Thursday and took a leisurely drive up Highway 1 along the California coast.


We stopped at Morro Bay State Beach for a picnic lunch.


We stopped at Vista Points.


And more Vista Points. (See my photographer kid.)


And more Vista Points. (See the highway heading up the hill across the water.)


One Vista Point was even a place to watch Elephant Seals in their mating, beaching area. (See all the lumps on the beach. All seals.)


We stayed the night at a motel in Pacific Grove. (This is my 7th photo with the kids for my 52 week project.)

Friday morning after checking out of the motel, we drove a couple blocks down to a light house and the gorgeous coast. We couldn't get enough beaches on this trip. And each beach was so different.







We toured the Carmel Mission.


It was dedicated in 1797. It was old and beautiful.


We looked for the bluff in Carmel where Walt and I got married almost 10 years ago. Instead we found Carmel Beach. The kids burned off some energy by jumping. Walt started it.


We had lunch at The Tuck Box. It's an English Tearoom in a Storybook Cottage of Carmel. There are over a dozen of these that were built by a family in the 1920s. It was very quaint.


We drove North to Santa Cruz where we visited The Seymour Center Aquarium. They have a 87 foot long Blue Whale skeleton.


Carley borrowed my camera to take pictures too. (See her in the window.)


The kids enjoyed touching and learning.


We went to Natural Bridges State Beach. As recently as the 1950s, there were three "bridges" there but now there is only one. I learned that at The Seymour Center Aquarium.


We stayed for sunset.


I took a lot of pictures.