We’d been swaying between going whale watching and just getting on the road and up to San Francisco. In the end we decided that whale watching was worth doing whether we saw one or not.

We headed off down to the pier to buy tickets and hire binoculars. Read the rest of this entry »

The B&B we stayed in gave a massive, home cooked breakfast each morning so we had a leisurely but big breakfast before heading out into the Monterey sunshine.

Our main activity for the day was Monterey Aquarium right on Monterey Bay. Read the rest of this entry »

We woke up early in Morro Bay and before continuing on our road trip up the Pacific Coast Highway we decided to take one last walk down to Morro Rock and watch the sea otters.

We stopped about an hour up Route 1 at Hearst Castle. Hearst Castle is the most extravgant building I have seen. Read the rest of this entry »

We started today slowly still in the relaxing stupor that we started yesterday when we arrived in Visalia!  We had breakfast in bed, I finally finished my book and we headed down to the jacuzzi (we did also exert ourselves with four lengths in the pool!)

Eventually we set off for Morro Bay stopping half way to have a wander and arrived in Morro Bay in the afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »

The drive to Visalia was a complete contrast to the height of Yosemite. We passed over dry plains that seemed to stretch forever and the heat was immense with heat hazes on the road almost the whole way. Read the rest of this entry »