{"id":1289,"date":"2023-04-27T03:16:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T03:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2023-05-18T20:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T20:26:44","slug":"francis-beach-campground-half-moon-bay-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"Francis Beach Campground- Half Moon Bay. April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have missed blogging a couple of coast trips but here we go again.  We had a wonderful week on the coast, although it was a bit chilly.  It was sunny and looked great but the high velocity winds were sooo cold! We only had a campfire one night when the wind became a breeze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We really enjoy walking along the California Coastal trail in this area.  Just off the campground and beach, you can walk through a bird sanctuary. We didn\u2019t see many terrestrial birds, and no raptors at all. But then we headed into town to our favorite bakery- Moonside Bakery. They sell my favorite commercial bread by Coastside Bakery so we got a loaf of that.  And a blackberry danish and chewy chocolate cookie. Of course!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_0512-large-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_0512-large-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_0512-large-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_0512-large-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_0512-large-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday we drove to Santa Cruz and went on another whale watching trip with the Stagnaro Brothers charter line. After being sooooo sick on the last boat, I truly loaded up on anti nausea stuff. I had my sea bands, ginger pills, decongestants and Emitrol chewables. I lasted for almost 1.5 hours until a pair of Humpback whales surfaced just feet from the boat and the captain had to get out of gear- while we were sideways to the swells. Gaaa\u2026.I took another ginger capsule and started eating the Emitrol!!! I did manage to avoid feeding the fish this trip out and I did truly feel better once we started moving. We ended up seeing 4 Humpback whales and a pod of about 14 Risso\u2019s dolphins.  We were able to follow the dolphins for over a half hour- they are funny looking and pretty cool. I saw one calf and heard there was another. Totally cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_0617-large-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_0617-large-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_0617-large-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_0617-large-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_0617-large.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Humpback whale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1230-large-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1230-large-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1230-large-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1230-large-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1230-large.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Risso\u2019s Dolphin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1468-large-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1468-large-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1468-large-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1468-large-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1468-large.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave and I tried a new trail later in the week &#8211; Devil\u2019s Slide, which is the old Highway 1 prior to the tunnel passage. It was nice because it is decently paved but it is pretty steep up and down.  We saw a Gray whale and her calf, and maybe a second one.  Hard to tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1464-large-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1464-large-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1464-large-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1464-large-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_1464-large.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Walking the slide trail we could see so much rock striation. Makes sense why so many bad slides occurred <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have missed blogging a couple of coast trips but here we go again. We had a wonderful week on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}