Monterey Road Trip

The Thanksgiving week allowed our friends to skip out from work, so we decided to do something a little different… we packed up our dive gear and headed to Monterey, California!

Mt Shasta looking very picturesque

Andrew and Stacey overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge

Tor and Jules

The end of the Coast Guard pier houses a pile of sea lions and seals

Fish-eating anemone

Lingcod

The sea lions like to eat mola mola fins

Sea nettle jellyfish look so delicate and beautiful

Until there are thousands at the safety stop

The beautiful kelp forests of Monterey Bay

An urchin arch

Stacey, Andrew, Rockfish

Stunning kelp

Monarch butterflies flock to the Monterey Bay region, settling in at forest groves to wait out the winter.

Our last evening’s restaurant overlooked the Pacific Ocean, with Highway 1 to the south.

A gorgeous sunset on our last night.