So. CA Coast: Day Three My Most Excellent Adventure

Where were we now..... I'm thinking Day Three.
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This was freaking me out: We were driving North and the ocean was on our left. Funky, huh? It messed with me the whole trip. I was directionally-challenged for the entire trip.

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Check out the beach front. They don't have sand dunes like we do, they have boulder dunes. A boulder sea wall, I suppose. Each house had a stairway carved into the boulders.
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This was our first pull-over off the Pacific Coast Highway, I'm not sure where we were. We walked down the coast, oops, I mean up the coast quite a distance. This guy had just caught a stingray.

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Finally.... Morro Rock! It is very similar to Haystack Rock off the Oregon coast. (not to be dropping names or anything...)

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So this is Morro Bay and we pulled in at dark, so this photo is from the next morning. We stayed at the top of this hill at Bay View Inn. It was nice for a single night, clean, a little old. I was miffed because we were told our room comes with a fireplace (and it was chilly). It was true, our room came with a fireplace, but it didn't work and they knew it didn't work and wouldn't work during our stay. {{{{grrrrrrr}}}} We had been counting on that fireplace......

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It was a long, sleepless night. Marj called from the high school about Kyle's football injury, asking if she could go to the emergency room with friends and family. It was late, but we let her go. We texted back n forth to keep up on his progress. She went home around 2 or 3 a.m. after Kyle's injuries were established and surgery was not planned at that time.

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Sunrise down at the bay.

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There are little shops along the street with the water front behind the stores. It's an adorable town and you could spend a day here, a perfect stop along your drive up the PCH.

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"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

II Corinthians 4:16-18

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This lady seemed quite fun. She rowed up to us and chatted awhile. She is a teacher from upstate, with a house here for weekends and summers. Her kayak was interesting because it had foot paddles. I've never seen one with foot paddles. What a great workout. I couldn't help but imagine - someone is sitting inside a cement gym doing the same workout on a fake kayak with a movie screen showing photos something like this on it. Dude, this can't be re-created.

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We ate breakfast at The Outrigger, sitting at glass windows overlooking the bay, watching this sea lion frolic.

Breakfast chatter consisited of discussing Kyle's football accident, talking to Marj and Britta to check up on him, and talking about the plane wreck in Columbia involving former Blink-182 drummer and some of his crew. The guy at the table next to us knows the drummer and since that's our home airport, we discussed it a lot and marvelled at this "small world."

All coffeed-up, we loaded the car and hit the PCH once again.