Monterey -- Report 3: 17 Mile Drive

Thursday, April 10. Weather has warmed up so we take the "17 Mile Drive." This loops through the west side of the Monterey Peninsula, past famous golf courses, like Pebble Beach, and fabulous homes and estates. Some shots:


Here is the lone cypress -- iconic image and state symbol -- somehow growing out of that rock. Its estimated age is 250 years.

Just after this next picture was taken, this lady was arrested for streaking across the Pebble Beach Golf Course. Said she heard there was a nude beach the other side of the green.

All along the coastal part of the 17 Miles are great houses in awesome locations. Often, it seems, the best views of these houses (which fascinate me as much as the rocky-shore scenes) are sites where there's no place to stop to get a picture or there are walls and hedges in the way. Here's one I shot holding my camera high and aiming it somewhere over the gate. Susie just knew I'd get arrested. Looks like an Italian villa, or rather what I think an Italian villa must look like.

Then there was this surfer dude.

Weather promises to be even better tomorrow -- in the 70s -- so we're going to take a drive down to Big Sur -- about 25 miles down the coast from Carmel.

Cheers,

Susie and Rob