
Seahorses do a courtship dance before they mate. After the dance, they mate for life and here's the best part!!--the female hands off the fertilized eggs to the male, who carries them to term and gives birth. There was footage of the mating dance and actual birth. And, they had a tank of mated seahorses who twine their tails and float around together.
After the seahorse exhibit, I had my material for the blog but we still had the incomparable 17 Mile Drive through Carmel and Pebble Beach still to come. The day before we had seen Big Sur. I was reaching sensory overload, but we forged ahead. Obviously, the drive is nothing short of spectacular but the best part was seeing RBK's reaction to it all. Normally, he's pretty low-key but he could NOT hold back. It was one superlative after another seeing the mansions, the ocean, the unusual trees and greenery...and finally, Pebble Beach itself. He spent a bundle in the pro shop and came out looking as though he'd had a religious experience. It would be the same for me, if I'd been to Wimbledon.
It was on to Carmel for a bit of shopping. Here I was distinctly underwhelmed. Monterey was much more approachable. The display of wealth was shocking both on 17 Mile and in town. The road was beautiful but after Big Sur, the beauty was skin-deep. I could not identify with any of it: golf, drippy, ostentacious wealth, superior attitudes in the shops and a general feeling that wherever I went I felt invisible to those around me, maybe even as though I was trespassing.
Today, was a driving day in the direction of Yosemite but the drive was really short; only two hours. We wondered as we got started, how to spend the day when we suddenly drove past a billboard for the Winchester Mystery House. We had seen the house on TV a couple of times and were mildly intrigued. It was only 45 minutes off the route so we decided to go for it. It was spontaneous and we were so proud of ourselves.
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RBK enjoys lunch overlooking the 18th green at Pebble Beach |
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Lone Cypress in Pebble Beach |
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Winchester Mystery House |
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