Shell Beach Motels

 

Shell Beach Inn - Pismo Beach  2021

Ocean View Motel - Pismo Beach  2021

Photos taken in the morning under a nice overcast. I was using a Canon G5XII.

Post Office

 

Shell Beach Post Office - Pismo Beach  2021

Post Office Art - Pismo Beach  2021

Shell Beach is a neighborhood within the city of Pismo Beach. Easy to get to from our hotel.

Beach Scenes

 

Beach, Fog - Pismo Beach  2021

Runners - Pismo Beach  2021

I drove over to the pier early one morning to get some atmospheric fog shots.

Monday Egret Blogging

 

Egrets - Pismo Beach  2021

Underneath the Pismo Beach pier. Compare to earlier Marbled Godwit photo in 2015.

Ocean, Moon

 

Ocean, Moon - Pismo Beach  2021

View from our balcony. Whoa! Mesmerizing.

Pismo Beach Black and White

 

Outside Restaurant Counter - Pismo Beach  2021

Trailer on Pier - Pismo Beach  2021

Top photo taken with a Canon G5XII. Bottom one with a Nikon Z5.

Palm Trees

 

Mir-A-Mar - Pismo Beach  2021

Palm Trees - Pismo Beach  2021

The drive down to Pismo Beach from Marin County is quite long. We needed to get out our Southern California fold-out map to plan our trip. So Southern California: I guess the palm trees are kind of OK.

Kids

 

Little Girl (Salinas) - Monterey County  2021

Kids - Pismo Beach  2021

Top photo taken in Salinas outside the Joanne's Fabric store. iPhone.

Bottom one taken from our hotel room balcony. Nikon Z5.

Equinox

 

Autumn (Salinas) - Monterey County  2021

Mugs (Corte Madera) - Marin County  2021

Scenes from Joanne Fabrics in Salinas and Corte Madera.

Pismo Beach / Pacific Coast Highway

 

Pismo Beach Sign - Pismo Beach  2021

Pacific Coast Highway - Pismo Beach  2021

"The PCH begins in Southern California at Interstate 5 south of San Juan Capistrano, and it ends at U.S. 101 in Leggett in Mendocino County."

Monday Cat Blogging

 

Cats - Pismo Beach  2021

Taken as I was walking down the main drag in Pismo Beach.

Return to Pismo Beach

 

Ocean, Clouds - Pismo Beach  2021

There's already an extensive amount of Pismo Beach photos on the blog. When we lived in Los Angeles it was one of our frequent vacation spots. And in recent years I've broken up the drive coming from L.A. by overnight stays in the Pismo Beach vicinity.

Now there'll be more posts! We took a family vacation in August in Pismo Beach, staying there for several days. Lots of photo ops.

Mustangs

 

Mustang - Marin County  2021

Mustang with Shelby Side Pipes - Marin County  2021

Mustangs parked in our neighborhood. Pretty exotic . . . after the first sighting they disappear.

iPhone Black and White

 

Oaks, Fog - Marin County  2021

Fennel, Dead Tree - Marin County  2021

Taken during my morning walks, converted to black and white in Photoshop.

Fenceposts

 

Fenceposts (San Geronimo Valley) - Marin County  2021

Fenceposts, Trees (San Geronimo Valley) - Marin County  2021

More in the "Fenceposts" series.

Poison Oak

 

Lichen, Poison Oak (San Geronimo Valley) - Marin County  2021

Poison Oak in Tree (San Geronimo Valley) - Marin County  2021

Hiking the Roy's Redwoods loop trail with an Olympus E-M1II.

Smoke

 

Sun, Fire Road, Smoke - Marin County  2021

Mount Tamalpais, Smoke - Marin County  2021

Here's my seasonal smoke post, a regular feature on the mikereport. The smoke in our area is not coming from either the Dixie Fire or the Caldor Fire, but rather from the "River Complex" fires.

Regarding the current fire situation, I'd like to quote from my June 16, 2017 "Dead Trees" post:

"Most of the trees have lost some, or all, of their needles. This is making the problem less conspicuous as they are starting to resemble the snags left after a fire. Certainly they are going to provide fuel for future forest fires."

Monday Horse Blogging

Tuffy (San Geronimo Valley) - Marin County  2013

Tuffy, waiting to be fed. Hanna was able eventually to help with his feed bucket. 

As a point of interest, he needed to be given horse wormers on a regular basis . . . Hali rotated through various medications, including Ivermectin. Alas, I guess that we don't have any old tubes laying around though. 

Tuffy hated the stuff, by the way.

Hanna Preparing Tuffy's Feed - Marin County  2015

Trestle Bridge

 

Sunset, Trestle Bridge (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Trestle Bridge (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Photos taken looking out of our motel window. Wow! The bridge was originally built for the railroad, now it's for pedestrians. The web has more information about the bridge than you might want.

Flags

 

Flag, Moon (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Flag, Building (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Interesting. These are my second and third flag photos taken on the trip. (First one in the town of Mendocino.) 

Interesting.

California Western - 2

 

Tracks, Water Tower (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Railroad Mural (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino  County  2021

The mural is quite faded; I gave it a little boost in Photoshop.

California Western - 1

 

California Western RR Car (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Art, Railroad Car (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

"Gas-powered, self-propelled, passenger railcars were added in 1925; and, after Pullman service was discontinued, CWR steam passenger trains ran only when the motorcars were out of service for maintenance. The passenger coaches were scrapped in 1949. The motorcars were nicknamed "Skunks" because people said, "You can smell 'em before you can see 'em."

I remember taking the train to its midpoint some years ago. It's my understanding that it no longer makes a regular run over to Willits.

But, they're still working on the tracks! Below, a little maintenance car we had to stop for on the way out of town. 

Utility Car (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Noyo Harbor Mural

 

Mural, Noyo Harbor (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

I had to leave our restaurant and walk back for this photo. The sun was starting to get kind of low: I was worried that the glare might wipe out the sky. But no! . . . the Canon came through.

Noyo Harbor

Ice (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Noyo Fishing Center (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Two ice machines! 

Photos taken with a Canon G5XII camera, then converted to black and white using Photoshop.

Monday Gull Blogging

 

Gull, Coast Guard (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Down at the Noyo Harbor. A Canon G5XII photo.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden - 3

 

Dahlia (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Foxglove (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Photos taken with a Nikon Z5 and 24-200mm zoom lens.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden - 2

 

Ocean (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Cypresses, Ocean (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

The Botanical Garden starts at Highway 1 and goes to the ocean. The sea seemed a bit rough that day, but perhaps it's always like that.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden - 1

 

Flowers, Driftwood (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Nasturtiums (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

We made a morning excursion to the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden. You enter just off the main street (Highway 1). We'd never been there before . . . luckily we had known to get advance tickets.