Jessica gets Dakota ready to ride
Bella is ready to go
It's a real foggy beach today and the waves are choppy. The tide is coming in. We rode all the way south on the beach (to the "No horses past this point" sign) and on our way back, Jesse noticed a pod of dolphins right off the shore. They're real quick and very difficult to photograph!
There's a pod of about a dozen dolphins in this photo right around where the wave is breaking in the middle of thie picture, they're just underwater at this moment. That might be a fin just left of center.
Waves are coming up high on the beach. The sand is deep so the horses didn't want to run today.
The seagulls took off as we approached and flew real close to the water - no high flying in this weather!
Blue Heron - this bird is about 4 feet tall
We had left the beach and gone on the trail on the other side of the dunes. This is the Salinas River and the Moss Landing harbor. The PG&E power plant across Highway One is nearly shrouded in the fog.
Beach plants growing on the dunes
The ice plant is real colorful here.