A Cold Morning In Monterey

The temperature this morning was a bit chilly for Monterey - there was a frost, so I waited until the sun came up before I went for my run (the sun, reliably, was warm). Once I got to the municipal wharf, there was still a frost on the exposed wooden planking. It's exposed underneath to the air as well as on top, which allows it to get colder and therefore becomes frosty more easily.


Further down the wharf and the sea lions were sticking their flippers out of the water (to keep warm - apparently).


And finally, there were fishermen unloading a boat load of sardines on the other side of the wharf into big ice buckets that were being loaded on to semis (aka articulated wagons) to be taken off somewhere else. I'd noticed the signs saying this area was being reserved for unloading of sardines when I was running here the other day, and today they were busy unloading.

I imagine the unloading will continue every morning for a couple of weeks or so like it did last year.