After a night of crashing surf just meters away from the campsite in Half Moon Bay we woke early and a little stiff now that we are ‘roughing it’ once again. The rest of the riders in camp set off while we enjoyed our usual large breakfast of cereal, fruit, and break with pb.
Out of practice in packing up, we struggled to get moving, laughing at our snail's pace. Today’s ride marked a definite change in vegetation as the coast became significantly more windswept with small shrubs replacing trees. IWater was usually not far from sight as the road made numerous short climbs only to descend to the next deserted beach.
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| Near Pebble Beach North of Santa Cruz |
We had a pleasant stop at an Organic berry farm half way through the ride. The strawberries were gorgeous! The panniers were topped with 3 baskets worth in this interesting payment system… 10% discount for cyclists; how could we go wrong.
Today’s ride took us through some of the premier surfing along the West Coast. Not surprisingly, each beach and cove we passed was filled with surfers despite in being a cool, late October Thursday. I guess the surfers are on the same retirement schedule we are…
With flatter conditions and a wind change we made Santa Cruz, meandering the beautiful coast road and admiring the charming houses along it. We stopped to take in a surfing competition before getting lost on the way through town. Thankfully we found our bearing along with a Whole Foods Market to get stocked up for the evening.
The New Brighton State Park is a pretty one although run very officiously as we were told that all tenters must vacate by 9am and only allowed a one night stay. Good thing we were planning on moving on…
We enjoyed another evening on an empty beach enjoying a bottle of Goldeneye, along with dinner. While our location did not permit a full view of the sunset we caught a great moonrise which Dee caught on the camera.
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