Aquarium and Pebble Beach

Today we went to Monterey to the aquarium. It was pretty amazing seeing 10,000 sardines eating chum in the million gallon "deep sea" exhibit. 

The sardines

Other items we saw at the aquarium:

- penguins being fed (Lola was pretty excited)

- LOTS of jellyfish

- four octopus (octopi?)

- three otters playing in the pool

- many sharks (hammer head, lion and others that we didn't see signs for)

- manta rays

- Sea horses 

- two giant sea turtles

- some kelp (the Monterey aquarium was the first to have live kelp in their exhibits)

After the aquarium, we went to Bubba Gump for lunch. Lola had her usual crab and Arizona Adam had a fish sandwich. 

Lola enjoying her lunch

After lunch, we took a leisurely drive from Monterey to Carmel along 17 mile drive. We went along the coast and stopped in at Pebble Beach golf course.  There were several "large" homes. Maybe it should be "large homes" because these were not just homes in my opinion but massive living areas that could house three families of 6 each. 

On the drive

The 18th hole at pebble beach 

Once we got back to Carmel, we parked the car at the hotel and walked half a mile to the beach. AA was hoping to see a good sunset, camera in hand but unfortunately the clouds had other plans. We still enjoyed the sunset from what we could see. 

The beach at Carmel before the clouds rolled in

Dinner was at The Forge. Lola ordered the vegan plate with chicken. The waiter laughed. 

At dinner

Tomorrow will be more driving. We enjoyed our day of exploring and tomorrow will put us in San Fran for a few days. Hopefully the weather forecast is correct - sunny and 17*C, much like today which felt much warmer than 17...