We left our campground and drove into Monterey. It took four hours to get to our first stop, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, because it turns out there's no parking at the aquarium for trailers. We drove around looking for a place to park the trailer and found one at Costco. But then we had to drive around more looking for a lock so no one could steal the trailer by hitching up their car to the trailer. We FINALLY got to the aquarium at around 2 PM. We saw sea otters, the giant kelp tank, flamingos, and some sea lions on a buoy out in the bay. My favorite thing there were the sea otters. It was really fun. Here are some pictures I took.
We left the aquarium, and went to the Nestle Cookie store for some REALLY good chocolate chip cookies, and mom was happy because she had her Starbucks! After that, we went on the 17 Mile Drive. It was really pretty. They had these Cypress trees that were really green and since there's wind blowing all the time, and their leaves were like pine needles but shorter and scaly. We made stops along the way take pictures and play along the shore. At one stop there were some tide pools with lots of tiny crabs. There were lots of huge houses along the way. It was fun.
The drive ended at Carmel Beach right at sunset and lots of people were there to watch it, and then they all left right after.
Except for Joshua, who you can see in this video was more interested in the sand.
Maria,
ReplyDeleteI've been to this aquarium! Did you see the jellyfish display? That was my favorite.
-Karen