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Day 5, 4th August we left our hotel at Half Moon Bay and travelled towards Monterey and the Monterey Tides Hotel via a town called Pacifica.
Quality Inn, Half Moon Bay 
The room at the Quality Inn 
The room at the Quality Inn 
The room at the Quality Inn 
The bathroom at the Quality Inn 
The room at the Quality Inn 
The room at the Quality Inn 
Our Car at the Quality Inn 
The front of Our Car 
The town of Pacifica. This is the Statue of Captain Don Gasar De Portola, a Catalonian Spainiard, who was the first Governor of California and founder of San Diego. He also discovered the bay of San Francisico in November 1769. 
The pier at Pacifica 
Street art showing the place name. 
Pelicans diving for fish 
Fishermen trying their luck in the lee of the headland at the other end of Pacifica Beach. 
Clouds shrouding the mountains and hills behind Pacifica 
The building, was originally built as U.S. military triangulation station and observation site used during WWII to defend San Francisco Bay. It is accessed via the “Devil’s Slide Coastal Trail” 
Beach used by resting sea birds. The larger birds are Pelicans. 
Close up of the birds on the beach. 
A rock on the beach looks like a dead seal, but it is just a rock. 
Sea stacks off the coast at the Cowell – Purisima trail 
Pigeon Point Light Station 
Panoramic view of Whalers Cove, Pigeon Point Lighthstation 
Prisoner Rock in Whalers Cove, so called because fishermen were often stranded there by the rising tide. 
Pigeon Point Lightstation on the headland 
Pigeon Point Lightstation and cottage 
Pescadero Creek Bridge on the Cabrillo Highway (West Coast Highway 1) 
Amazing sandstone rock formations at Pescadero State Beach 
Kite Surfer 
Carole at work in the Monterey Tides Hotel, looking out over the bay. 
Sunset from the balcony outside our room at the Monterey Tides Hotel
JL Photos 