Good morning, Moss Beach, CA!
It’s 6:55 a.m. and the start of day one of this Travel blog – our first, or maybe our last if truly yours can’t remember which cord plugs into which outlet.
Moss Beach is about 25 miles south of San Francisco, hugging both Highway 1 and the Pacific coastline. Great morning – chilly, but the sun’s out and the surf is up, sort of.
Today is hike day. I’ve hooked myself up with a group of women who intend to “stomp” from Moss Beach south to a point past the town of Half Moon Bay, another 7 or 8 miles down the coast – maybe farther after we add in detours to stare at wildlife, homes, restaurants and bars. And bathrooms.
By the way, today's walk begins at Maverick's, one of the top 10 surfing spots in the world. No, we will not be surfing. We forgot our body suits and you need to be towed out to the waves by hardy and hard bodies on jet skis. We have neither.
The land trek south is perfect if you like this sort of thing. Just north from where we'll be starting is the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, an amazing place to study lots of small sea creatures and various other slimy things. It's worth a stop, if you're down this way.
Our route today is a pseudo trail, flat, occupying dirt trails, streets and road shoulders. Eventually it hooks up to a Burke Gillman-like path that takes you into Half Moon Bay.
We have some nice Web sites over there on the right side of this page, for reference, and I’ll include more as we blog along through today and the rest of this weekend.
A few more early-morning tidbits follow. If you find anything untoward here, chalk it up to it’s being WAY TOO EARLY in the morning for me. And let me know if you have suggestions for pit stops in the Bay Area. E-mail me at ttazioli@seattletimes.com.
Ciao for now. Will report in later, perhaps during the march itself – more likely at its end where snacks and beverages and some very comfortable couches await.
http://www.sfgate.com/getoutside/1996/jun/fitz.html
That's a nice one on the reserve.
http://www.stormsurf.com/page2/links/ncalrprt.shtml
Here's another on the surf report for the area. I don't have a clue what it says, but you hard bodies might.
Rumor has it there are regular golf reports on local radio. We'll let you know.
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