Very nicely done, as an explanation from a Canadian perspective. As indicated, it’s evident that our Mr Obama values Saudi Arabian “CONFLICT” oil over closer, friendlier Canadian oil. “Conflict Diamonds”? How about CONFLICT OIL?

Further, from CNBC, Donald Trump says OPEC is larfing their asses off at our inane “leadership.” My quotation marks. To wit:

The leaders of OPEC are “sitting around their table, setting the price of oil and laughing at us because we have no leadership,” real estate mogul Donald Trump told CNBC Tuesday.

That includes U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, whose Prince Alawaleed bin Talal recently told CNBC the price of oil won’t exceed $100 a barrel. Crude oil is currently at around $108.

“I have many friends in Saudi Arabia and other countries and they can’t believe what they’re getting away with,” Trump said. “They can’t believe how stupid we are. We don’t need Saudi Arabia.”

This time Saudi Arabia is correct and, of course, Donald Trump is correct. We don’t need Saudi Arabia whilst we have the Bakken Fields, massive fields of our own natural gas, fields in ANWR, fields a short distance off our very own coasts. And Keystone XL.

Whatever greater pain WILL be felt by the American Consumer shortly, remember this: Mr Obama purposely CHOSE “CONFLICT OIL” over friendly oil, and purposely CHOSE to disallow drilling our OWN resources.

BZ

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