Hello everyone, we wanted to bring you a video update of a side trip we took while we were in San Jose, California visiting our grandkids. Well, we were visiting our son and daughter-in-law also but you know how it is. Grandkids are the focus at our age and we had a ball.
One of the first things we did when we got to Monterrey was a specially laid out 17 mile scenic drive with route markers all along the way. This senic route road was actually started back in the 1892 as a way to take rich tourist out and sell them homesites.
It is a gorgeous drive starting at the Pebble Beach Golf Resort up in the hills and winds though the hills and trees down to the ocean, along the beach, with the golf courses along one side and the beach along the other side.
We would stop and watch the Pacific Ocean crash against the rocks and watch the birds and seals play in the water. Then road takes you back up into the trees and hills to the resort again.
There is actually a fee to take this drive. You have to go through a guard gate in one of several different places along the route. We were given a map of senic points and Linda would read as we drove.
Before taking the drive we decided to go back into Monterrey to a local fresh fish market that had a little restraurant attached. We picked up Fish & Chips for lunch and took it back out to the beach where we watched the waves crash in and the birds and harbor seals playing out on the rocks.
Then we had a seagull crash our lunch party. He hopped up on the hood of our truck and demanded that we give him our lunch. We were having none of it and Cora (the dog) was going crazy defending us from the sea gull as she cowered and barked in the back seat.
It was a beautiful drive.
It was very foggy because we were there in the morning. That seems to be normal in Monterrey. Every morning the fog rolls in and dissapates in the afternoon.
Then we drove around to the other side of the bay to Santa Cruz. Santa Crus is more of a party town and surfer haven.
It has beautiful sand beaches in between sheer rock cliffs all along the beach road. We got out and walked along the edge of the cliffs for a mile or so to get a feel of the place. We found the Surfer Museum of the Pacific that was in an old light house. We found out that surfing in the United States began here in Santa Cruz at this point when some Hawaiians came over to demonstrate the sport. We watched the surfers for awhile and then got back in the truck and drove back to San Jose. It was a wonderful day.
