Cambria

We arrived in Cambria around 6 pm and checked into our B&B, The Beach House. The house sits above the Pacific across the Moonstone Beach Drive. Our room was the Pelican Perch and it was wonderfully intimate with a great view of the ocean.

We walked on the board walk where we encountered a bunch of tame and over-fed ground squirrels. We then headed down to the beach which was covered by thousands of By-The-Wind Sailors which had drifted to the shore and were drying on the beach. We also saw several bull kelp that had been washed ashore and that look like mutated giant snakes. Farther up the beach there was lots of drift wood that someone had assembled into cool, abstract, stacks.

It seems that the week before a big holiday is the perfect time for travel--we were the only visitors at the house and in general there were few people. Our house lady let us leave our luggage at the house next day when we went on to visit the Hearst Castle.