 San Franciso Bay |
 Typical SF house on a hill |
 The Bay, the Babe and the Car |
 Lombard St. |
 Lombard St. |
 Alcatraz |
 Lombard St. |
 Hotel patio from our balcony |
 Kelp forest |
 Monterey Bay and fomer cannery |
 The hotel at dusk |
 Seal in kelp forest (head out of water - bottom center) |
 Sea otters |
 Gull |
 Monterey Plaza Hotel and Spa |
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 Another view of the hotel |
 I'd rather chase away ducks and gulls than these guys. |
 California sea lion "squaters" |
 Another squater joining the group (end of dock) |
 Sea lions looking around |
 The sea lions call this break water home |
 How do they sleep like that? |
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 More of the hotel |
 Ed Ricketts ("Doc" of "Cannery Row") |
 A home on Cannery Row |
 "Doc's Western Biological" |
 Cannery Row |
 "Doc's Western Biological" |
 Sue chatting up John (Steinbeck) |
 Monterey Bay at low tide |
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 The turn-down service was lovely |
 The shops across from the hotel |
 Bat ray |
 Kelp forest at the aquarium |
 Kelp forest at the aquarium |
 Fish feeding in the kelp forest |
 Fish feeding in the kelp forest (that orange one has jaws like a snapping turtle) |
 Feeding the sharks too. |
 Contratulating Teo (the announcer) for 250hrs of volunteer service. The sign is for his dad watching from Spain on the internet. |
 Anchovies (notice their jaws) |
 Fish |
 Jelly fish |
 More jellies |
 Egg yolk jelly fish |
 Jellies with the tank's lights on |
 Jellies with the tank's lights off |
 More jellies |
 Octopus |
 Wolf eel (which is really a fish not an eel) |
 Sea otter (that red mark means it's been tagged) |
 An outside view of our room |
 The sea lion's break water |
 Enjoying the spa and the view (from the top of the hotel) |
 Life is good... |
 ...but better together |
 The hotel from the spa (our room is two orange rooms in from the left and one down) |
 The hotel from the spa |
 Monterey Bay |
 The spa and Monterey Bay |
 The spa and Monterey |
 On our balcony |