After serving breakfast (I cooked bacon for 140) at Dorothy Day, Jadyne and I headed south to Pacific Grove on Thanksgiving morning, arriving at noon. We met our friends Tom and Andrea there for the next day and a half, returning to Kensington Saturday. In the twenty-four hours we spent together we played several games of Rummikub (all won by Jadyne), hiked around Point Lobos on Friday, then along the coast at Asilomar Saturday morning. A Thanksgiving dinner of salmon and butternut squash soup (thanks to Tom and Jadyne), then Friday night scallops at Passionfish, our favorite restaurant in Pacific Grove.
Of course I took my usual array of cameras and lenses, but in those two days all the images that follow were taken with my Nikon D850 and my 200-500mm zoom. That was all I needed. After a calm Friday we walked to Monterey Bay Saturday morning and were surprised at the cold wind that created massive waves, the biggest I’ve ever seen.
Asilomar
Peregrine Falcon, a neighbor
Hundreds of pelicans make the Monterey Peninsula home
…as do squirrels
Point Lobos. The western side of Point Lobos is closed to visitors, as the winter rains of last year have damaged or destroyed much of what we saw just a year ago.
The power of the waves was overwhelming.
Across from the Inn at Spanish Bay
Great herons were as common as the pelicans
The occasional turkey vulture
North of Asilomar, Monterey is off camera at two o’clock.
Near Spanish Bay
North of Asilomar
A few more.
Leashed and longing.