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 |