1st Camping Trip of the Summer

The weekend of Mothers Day Mom and I decided to take our first camping trip of the summer! Where else would we go for a fun, relaxing, beautiful weekend than our favorite little spot we found at Monterey Bay, CA. The weather was amazing! It was sunny and warm…well it was also SUPER windy when we got there and most of the nights. But it was still awesome! Gotham also came… he really likes eating the ground so he hung out in his crate a lot. We spent our day exploring the town a little more than we did last time. We went and looked at the light house and walked along the cliffs overlooking the ocean in hopes of seeing a whale. No luck this time.

 

We went down to the water to look at the tide pools and there was this really cool big rusty pipe that stretched out towards the ocean. The 3 of us followed it as far as we could. At one point it went over a big tide pool and you defiantly didn’t want to fall off or you would get very wet. With Gotham in toe we went across watching our footing the whole way. At the very end the little man falls off and I had to pull him up on to the rock.

It was so windy we had to keep our hoods up so our hair wouldn’t fly away. After looking at the tide pools we sat on a rock overlooking a small cove and saw about 5 baby harbor seals playing in the water. We then walked along the big beach and Gotham had so much fun trying to get the foam bubbles that the waves carried in.

The next morning we had our Ziploc omelets and stopped at an adorable coffee/book store. They had an amazing tea selection also. Then we were off to Carmel. Oh the traffic was terrible! It was so crowded we didn’t stay and jumped back on Hwy 1. We found this other beach that was beautiful and empty! We parked our car and hiked down to the water.

The beach was made up of all these small pebbles that were all different colors and perfectly smooth. Mom found this beautiful periwinkle stone that she had to come and show me. Well I decided to venture out on to a rock that was dangerously close to where the waves were breaking on shore.  Just when Mom comes out a massive wave crashed on to the rock we were on and soak us from the waist down.

Poor Gotham was completely soaked. We run back to dry sand laughing and dripping wet. We found a flat rock and laid out on it so we could dry. For the rest of the trip Gotham did not like the ocean waves.

The next day we had planned on going to the aquarium. On our way there we stopped at this little French bakery and got delicious almond croissants. We ate them while overlooking the bay. Our tour of the aquarium was so nice this time. We took out time sitting in front of the big tanks just enjoying the fish passing by. We also watched several movies so Gotham could have a break from all the people. Gotham really doesn’t like shopping and would sit under the shirts as I was looking at them.

It was so relaxing to just take our time and only see the things we wanted to see. That night we went for a nice long walk along the shore and watched the sun set into the ocean. Our last morning we walked alon the shore again and we saw a mommy and her baby otter  resting in a cove. So cute! 

Over all one of the best camping trips we have had.

Happy Mother’s Day Mommy!!!