Monterey Bay Inn. Cannery Row street is on the left. To the right, Monterey Bay itself and the mighty Pacific Ocean.

Looking out over the park towards the hotel.

The Cannery Divers memorial in Breakwater Cove park. Divers were important to the canneries because fish were processed through underwater pipes that had to be built, serviced and repaired.

Breakwater Cove. This is where diving students come to take classes in the open ocean, and is sufficiently close to land and assistance should problems arise.

South of the marina, near Fisherman’s Shoreline Park.

The west side of Monterey’s Fisherman’s Wharf, at low tide.

In the harbor, adjacent the Muni Wharf. The Monterey Bay Yacht Club is to the right, just out of the frame. The water was, again, amazingly clear.

Harbor, looking east towards the Yacht Club and the Muni Wharf.

The bay just adjacent the entrance to Fisherman’s Wharf, where numerous restaurants compete with various tourist shops and whale watching tour boats. Clearly, it is low tide.

Looking east towards Fisherman’s Wharf, on the west side. The water is very clear.

Unhappy diver. He is quite displeased with my presence and my camera. If looks could kill. . .

Click on each photo to enlarge. Many more photographs coming.

BZ

Whilst I load up some photographs in and around Monterey Bay, please be self-entertaining by watching the below video. Stupid people abound (Thanks to Texas Brady!):

BZ

An otter that seems to appear regularly below our window, whom we’ve taken to calling ‘Dave.’ He spent last night and this morning with us.

The seas were a bit rough and the winds were higher in the bay on Saturday. A good day, therefore, for many sailboats.

The waves cascaded and, literally, rocked the hotel. You could feel some of them make a low bass whump sound as they struck the piers and foundations.

Directly out our patio door and over the veranda is Monterey Bay. This shot looks northeast.

Wide angle photograph of the view from our fourth (top) floor room.

Lots of things to see from our room at the Monterey Bay Inn. It’s 55 degrees, fairly clear and quite windy. There are whitecaps in the bay itself. We heard seals barking from a red buoy in the night some distance out in the bay whilst the waves crashed over the rocks directly below our room. Even at low tide, the waves are rocking and rolling.

As I write this, the fog is starting to roll in a bit, on little cat feet.

The light is diminishing, Dave has disappeared, and it’s time to think of dinner.

BZ

An overall view of Monterey Bay, Fornicalia — which shows the very deep canyon just a few miles offshore to the west. Click to expand the view, and you will see the city of Santa Cruz to the north, and Monterey to the south.

That’s it. I’ve temporarily had enough.

It’s time for my wife and I to leave work and our stress behind.

I made reservations for five nights at one of the premier hotels in Monterey, Fornicalia. This is a late birthday present/anniversary for my wife. We are celebrating five years. Five years, what’s that? A paperclip?

We’ll be in a 540-square foot suite with a direct top-floor view of Monterey Bay, at the height of whale-watching season.

Time for a visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Bubba Gump’s Shrimp Company, and a host of other wonderful places on the ocean, to include J&S Surplus in Moss Landing — a wonderful store full of military memorabilia, paintball equipment, surplus, clothing, books, knives and collectibles!

Boys and girls, if it’s Friday, we’re driving there right now.

Posting will not stop. I hope to have, however, some updated photographs on our tours and travels.

Excelsior!

BZ

The motel where we’ll be staying. It is situated directly on the bay, just north of Breakwater Cove, the US Coast Guard station and Fisherman’s Shoreline Park, right on Cannery Row.