Cannery Row

Today (July 17, 2012) marks the 57th anniversary of the opening of Disneyland. For many years, we were always in the park on this day. When I realized the date, I thought we should do something enjoyable, so we decided to take a day trip down to Monterey and visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

They have a new exhibit featuring jellyfish.  It's a great show, and I have a ton of pictures, but that's for another day, assuming I get around to posting them.

Because we're being pretty serious about exercise these days, not only did we do the whole aquarium, but we took a walk around this historic district.  I'm kind of ashamed that in all the times we've visited the area, we haven't really done a "Cannery Row" tour, but that's what we did today.

The weather was perfect, and of we went.  

If you step a bit behind the scenes, 

there's Doc Rickett's lab.  

This is right above the area 

where he kept his specimens.

As regular readers know, 

I can't really help myself, 

I just take pictures of things I like.

I liked our reflection 

in this shallow seabed.

(Feel free to click for a larger image).

My favorite shot of the day,

I'm not sure why.

There are a number of beaches along the row.

I'd never noticed any of them before . . .

Something about this shot really appealed to me.

I couldn't decide if I liked it better 

in color 

or black and white, 

so I've included both.

Hopefully in a day or two 

I'll get the rest of the pictures processed.

If not, there always seem to be more.

Till then, remember