The California coastline driving south from San Francisco is nothing short of stunning. Our favourite tourist hotspots are the towns centered around Monterey. Springtime is especially gorgeous as the flowers are in full bloom and seal pups play on the beaches.
None of these photos are photoshopped or edited in anyway, they were captured on a Samsung S22 phone. The is one trip where we wished we had our camera on. This Black Friday or Boxing Day we are going to pick something up because a phone camera can't do such scenery justice.
Looking towards the city of Monterey from the suburban town of Pacific Grove. Cute houses and beautiful gardens line the cliffs. It's so incredible people are painting the scenery.
Can you blame them? Even without the pretty flowers or the semi tropical plants, the rocks, waves and otters playing in the surf would be more than worthy of hand painted art. Thousands of people were out taking photos and enjoying the fresh Spring air mixed with the sea breeze.
Nearby we have Cannery row and marinas with fishing boats. Monterey used to be famous for whale oil. Then it was famous for Sardines, they caught so many they almost fished out the seas which subsequently caused the Seal and Sea Lion populations to crash. Well they are back in full force and while you can't see them in this photo, there would be hundreds sitting on the structures supporting the piers.
Pelicans were also out in great numbers. They're used to the crowds and one can get quite close to these fascinating birds. If you've ever watched them fish, it's a sight to behold. They dive bomb fish in the water again and again gulping them up in one or two swallows before taking off to the skies to do it again.
These expert fishers are probably just digesting their food. Pelicans are a sign of a healthy ecosystem and it's fun to walk along the docks watching the wildlife and taking in the fishy smells. From here one can catch a tour to go out whale watching one of the more popular tourist activities in the area.
Cannery Row is similar to other portside tourist spots in America except they have these bridges to get from the docks to the canning factories on the other side of the street. There would have been crowds of carriages and people wondering about back in the day and armies of fisherman and workers. Now it's just tourists as most of the fish processing industry has moved elsewhere.
We had to have dinner at our favourite seaside restaurant in the area, The Fish Hopper. We got an excellent seat surrounded by water at the far edge of the restaurant. As we ate, sea otters were playing with their babies and diving for crustaceans on the sea floor.
The meal was as good as it looks. One can get Abalone, dozens of types of fresh fish, crab, lobster, etc. Fresh from the sea. There are hundreds of restaurants to choose from, we just like the view.
After a big dinner we took another walk up along the seashore to Perkins Park at the other end of Pacific Grove. We stayed in California for just under a week and spent a few afternoons just walking along the shores of Pacific Grove and Monterey.
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I hope to get to know this place someday; it is beautiful.
Thanks for sharing it.
And the food looks delicious.
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Hope you get to visit California one day too!
It's so much fun when you can hear the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks on the coast.
Looks like some really nice pictures and
Such an amazing pictures how the waves are hitting the ground
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Don't insult me like this @ninaeatshere. I delegate to @worldmappin, I have autovoting upvote the blogs some of the main members curate, I've been posting here and on Steem for 4 years prior to you becoming a member, I have 4 times the HP powered up than you do yet we have similar reputation, I have more than 25 times as much HP from upvoting people than you have and I occasionally find time in my busy life trying to support my family to read and comment on other peoples blogs.
@detlev is solicitation and harassment of people who have been contributing to the Hive community for years the direction you are taking Worldmappin in?
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I am sorry if I insulted you with this suggestion, that was not my intention. Of course you are a high valued member of our community since long time and are supporting already other members by upvoting and delegating. Thank you for that!
We started to give suggestions (no musts) to our members to help the community members benefit even more from each others experiences and wisdom collected over time. So what I wanted to say with my suggestion is - As you are one of those great and long time members of our community we think it would be great if you also get in touch more often with other younger/new community members so that they can learn from you. But of course we understand that our users have also a life next to Hive and time is valuable. I hope you understand it right this time.
Thank you for your reply @ninaeatshere from time to time I do comment on others travel blogs and sometimes my thoughtful comments are ignored. I see people commenting on my blogs who have read them and put time in to write something thoughtful and will often comment back, even visit their blog and follow them if they are interesting. Sometimes I look at all the blogs from the top selections of the day and comment on a few that are unique and of places I'd want to go or people who travel like we do. Understandably most are of places that I have already been or have no desire to go to.
Often the comments on my blog are of poor quality and they are just from people fishing for an upvote. Look above out of the 4 comments, 1 is an incomplete sentence where the person didn't even bother finishing their thought, two of them are about the sounds of waves, which tells me they only looked at the first photo and are talking about noise instead of travel. Only 1/4 is somewhat decent of a comment and you can tell they at least looked at other photos.
We can't relate to half the people writing here as they are more interested in getting a few cents from upvote then travelling to coastal California which is one of the most expensive destinations on the planet. I don't mean to sound arrogant but the people I am interacting with either live in Western North America or are traveling somewhere we are going to and travel like us. My next vacation is to Grenada, I don't see a single pin there. We are pairing it with Barbados, there is one pin from 5 years ago. We are also going to Costa Rica and Panama but we are staying in private luxury villas or 5 star top rated hotels and are not the yoga/hostel type beach bums. Not everyone travels the same way we do.
On that note one thought to improve worldmappin would be to break down the type of travelling. Budget, Adventure, Luxury, etc. I know you can search by tags but people tag all sorts of things that really doesn't describe the type of traveller they are. To be fair, my partner arranges most of our travelling and they are not interested in going anywhere that is not of exceptional quality or beauty. Seeing more of Spain is on our list and we are figuring out a European vacation next Summer but will be going much further East this time.
Hello again @crypticat, you've hit on a very interesting issue here, let me say that I very much agree with the way we generally see an attempt to reflect superfluous engagement within Hive, this however, is what I would like to try and change, but of course it's a job that will take a lot of time.
I am glad you took the time to tell me how you see the reflection of this, when others comment on your blog, it is helpful for us to understand your point of view as a frequent user. It would be great if when someone stops by a post, they do it out of interest and enthusiasm, as you describe you actually do.
As for your suggestion about the travel category filter, it is an interesting idea, I take note of it, because we plan in the future to expand features of the map to make it more useful to all travelers who access it, both inside and outside Hive. We can't promise anything concrete yet, but we could consider a different way of filtering types of experiences.