Rods on the Wharf

The town of Monterey is into its motors. What with the events year round at Laguna Seca, a mere 6 miles down the road, and their spill over effect, in particular the historic weekend. There are events not really tied into Laguna too, such as the Cherry's Jubilee Hot Rod weekend.

Well, apparently, there's one (smaller) event I'd not heard of - Rods on the Wharf, which consists of a smaller set of Hot Rods taking over the customs plaza.


This event was happening at the same time as the weekly Farmers Market takes over Alvarado Street, so I took in the market too. It's a good Farmer's Market, lots of fresh produce, lots of different cooked food stands and a fair few arts and crafts stalls too, taking over the whole of Alvarado Street and a couple of the side streets too.

Here's a self portrait at the Hot Rod show.


Next to the hot rod show, Fisherman's Wharf was looking rather photogenic in the evening's twilight.


I grabbed some Greek beef, tomato, rice and spinach burrito like thing from the Farmers Market to tied me over whilst I checked out the rods - all good!

Penguin?

This bird was on the verge of fleeing, but managed to contain itself long enough for me to snap a couple of shots during my 10k this morning out on the end of Wharf #2.

I Eat Fruit!

If you know me, you know that's an unusual situation. What makes it even more unusual? I got it from the front yard!

I'd noticed this fruit groing on a tree in the neighbor's yard that is hanging into mine and I never knew what it was - it just looked weird. Then I got into a conversation with this guy at work and he told me the story of how he finally figured out what the weird fruit tree was in his yard.

As he described the fruit, I realized it was the same as the fruit in my yard. A quick Google later and it was confirmed - a fruit popularly known as Pineapple Guava!

So, today I tried it - managed to find a couple of ripe ones just about to fall off the tree, got 'em and ate 'em - they were small, so my eating healthy fruit kick was minor.

Here we see the two pieces of fruit sitting on top of the laptop.


According to my friend at work and the web, the way to eat these is to cut them in half and then scoop out the insides and eat away.


The consistency was like a cross between a banana and a guava and the taste was tart but actually quite nice.


Spoon and knife included in images for scale purposes (it's a teaspoon) - you can even see my hands and the camera in the reflection of the teaspoon in this photo - I'll never make it as a photographer!

Old Fishing Boat

Most Tuesday mornings I go for a 10k run - my route is to leave the house, run down the hill to the bike path - take that path out and back to Pacific Grove, and then carry on down the path in the other direction, past Fisherman's Wharf and out on to the Municipal Wharf.

This morning, the light was really nice and there was an old fishing boat moored in the harbor, so out came the camera (I take the small Point and Shoot camera on all runs and bike rides).


You can see the Monterey Plaza Hotel in the background (on the right), which is directly down the hill from the house - the run back to which consists of the last mile and a quarter of my 10k route.

Turbulent Waters

I went cycling this morning down the bike path out to Pacific Grove and on to 17 Mile Drive. The weather was calm, but the ocean was turbulent. Such conditions usually indicate a storm is approaching, but no storm arrived.

Anyway, here's a photo (taken on 17 Mile Drive) showing the ocean bouncing off the rocks in the early morning sun.

Sunrise Through The Window

I woke up this morning to see an orange glow through the bedroom window so moved to the front of the house to see this. Apologies for all the wires in the photo, but given the fact I was in my PJ's, a quick photo through the window was all I had time for.


Yes, that orange bit right at the bottom of the photo is the orange glow reflecting off the bay.