Stop at Coastside Books and Cards (432 Main Street) to pick up the Spanishtown Historical Society walking map ($3.50) to find out what those gabled buildings were before they became real estate offices and cafes.
Shoppers should not miss the arts and crafts in the converted Zaballa Square's galleries (300 block of Main Street), Nuestra Tierra (421 Main Street) and Coastal Comforts (432-A Main Street).
The wind picks up late in the day, so head to Main Street to pick up a souvenir and watch kids eat ice cream cones while swinging their bare feet from outside benches. Go to Barbara's Fish Trap (281 Capistrano Road, 65) at Pillar Point Harbor for clam strips ($5.95) or fish and chips ($9.95) in a cozy room decorated with white nets and colorful carved wooden fish. If you did not find your sea legs whale watching or investigating the tide pools, you can find them at lunch. (Yes, you can almost always see seals frolic here.) Stretch your hamstrings on the half-mile path that runs atop the beach beneath towering cypresses and ends at idyllic Seal Cove Beach.
In the freshly filled pools, you will see skittering purple shoe and hermit crabs, floating green anemones and ocher starfish. When it is the off-season for whale watching, drive north on Highway 1 to the James Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, a network of tidal pools (200 Nevada Street, turn right out of Half Moon Bay and left at the brown ''wildlife viewing'' signs just after Moss Beach, 65). ''Thar she blows'' someone is bound to cry as the boat idles alongside your new mammalian friend - which will most likely be a gray whale, although orcas occasionally swim through. The ride can get rough but it is worth it when you see that puff of air. We spoke with him about his plans to address overcrowding and share the country’s untold stories.ĭuring the whale-watching seasons (December to February during the southward migration, February to April when the whales head north) drive to Pillar Point Harbor to catch a three-hour whale watching cruise (Huck Finn Sportfishing Center, 80) that departs at 10 a.m. Sams III is the National Park Service’s first Native American director.
TIDAL POOLS HALF MOON BAY FREE
You can buy everything, from books on philosophy to dog food, but the locals come for the free tunes (a list of coming bands is available at Fast-paced banjo twangs will make your heart race, as will the menacing glances from cyclists and bikers crowding the bar.ĭrive back on Highway 1 and turn left at Cowell Ranch Beach, about three miles shy of Half Moon Bay. Turn left on Highway 84 and stop at the San Gregorio General Store (Highway 84 and Stage Road, 65), a combination honky-tonk and card shop. KLEINīring a camera and drive down the scenic coast road with its cow-dotted valleys and cliff-rimmed beaches about 10 miles to the village of San Gregorio, a popular resort at the turn of the last century. So grab your sunscreen and a sweater, and head out for the weekend. And, like the fortunes in nearby Silicon Valley, the temperature rises and falls at any time of the year. Part Mayberry, part Burberry - Half Moon Bay seems perched between two extremes. Upscale eateries, knickknack shops and galleries have recently taken over historic buildings, and million-dollar digs are sprouting along the beach. Still, like the occasional warm flow off the ocean, some of the dot-com largesse has blown in over the Santa Cruz range.
In nearby fields, tractors kick up dust while preparing the ground for artichokes and brussels sprouts. Main Street in this small beach town (population: 11,842) dates from the 1800's. IT is only a short drive south from Silicon Valley, but Half Moon Bay, Calif., could not feel more low tech.
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