Paso Robles, CA; Visiting Morro Bay

Getting Out Before the Rain Moves In!

Sunday started out nice and sunny. The news warned of rain coming in by late afternoon. We wanted to get out and do something before the weather moved in. We decided to road trip over to Morro Bay; A small fishing town about 30 miles to the west.

We knew that Tony (aka Firedude), a fellow full-timer we met at Quartzsite, was camp hosting at Morro Strand State Beach. We stopped by to say hi and have a chat. Tony is a retired fireman, thus his 'handle'. He is also a moderator on the RV.NET bulletin boards, and he does commentary for ABC news on wildfires, he's a busy guy!


Tony's been camp hosting here for the past three years. By this picture, its easy to see why. The campground is on the beach. You can see the storm front is moving in and the waves were good for the surfers.









We headed in to town to grab some lunch. We stopped in Rose's Landing, right on the bay. It looked like a dive with the corrugated steel ceiling and old chairs and tables; These type of places usually have the best food! (down with the chain restaurant!) They did have these cool hand blown glass, light up starfish on the bar.








Well, here is the view of the bay from our seats in Rose's. And, they had these killer garlic fries and homemade clam 'chowda' (in my best Boston accent). The 'rock' in the background is Morro Rock, which you can see in the first picture as well. It's the landmark for the city and divides the bay from the open water.








We took a little walk around town to burn off the garlic fries. The rain decided to move in early!





There was a small aquarium in town. They had a few rescue seals. For $.50 you could get a small bag of cut up fish and feed them. They were pretty cute and one of them was quite the clown, waving as he swam to score more fish!


As we headed back, in the rain, we attempted to find the Windward Tasting room that we missed on our wine tasting marathon the other day. They specialize in small production Pinots. We found them and shared a tasting, $10 for a tasting was pretty steep. Their Pinot's were pretty good, but not $40 a bottle good! After that we headed back for a quiet evening of reading, TV and listening to the rain on the roof.

-Rich-