The whale(s) breached over a dozen times! Sometimes just a side flipper or a tail, but many times it was the entire body way up in the air. Without much of a zoom my camera was hopeless, and the viewfinder was too dark to see anything before the big splash. Here is a way-zoomed-in crop of a splashdown. That sailboat was treated to an amazing display.
On the way home on Sunday we stopped by the Pigeon Point lighthouse. The ocean view was incredibly clear, and upon arriving be were greeted by a spectacular display of breaching gray whales just off the shore.
Last weekend we had to cancel a long awaited camping trip to D.L. Bliss State Park, right on Lake Tahoe near Emerald Bay, because of uncharacteristically wintery weather. Major bummer! We salvaged the weekend by going to Memorial Park near Pescadero and had a great weekend.
Weather was spectacular today after far too much rain and cold the past couple of weeks. Played hooky, and headed over to the Half Moon Bay Brewing Co. for lunch, and we followed that up with a walk along Pillar Point Bluff.
Now have to finish up some work at home tonight, but I have no regrets!
I don't know what Menlo Park is doing with an Everglades-style air boat, but it's pretty cool!
Pericles, AKA Perry, is the miniature donkey in the background. Miner Forty Niner is the bigger one eating my mountain bike.
These two live in the pasture behind the VA hospital in the Barron Park neighborhood of Palo Alto. Perry happens to be a star -- he was the model for the Donkey character in Shrek!
