Anniversary Trip to Carmel (June 2002)

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For our fifth anniversary, Holly and I took a pretty spontaneous trip down to Carmel-by-the-Sea, down in the Monterey Peninsula. We spent a day trekking about tidepools at Point Lobos, a beautiful coastal state park a few miles south of Carmel.

Other than the time we drove down to Santa Barbara (last year, for our fourth anniversary), we hadn't ever been south of Carmel, and we'd never seen Highway 1 south of Carmel during the day, so we spent some time driving the Jeep on Highway 1. There are a couple photos from Garrapata State Beach, a really beautiful and not very crowded beach where sea lions like to hang out; as well as from some of our driving.

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Holly's Jeep at a fruit stand on Highway 1	Holly eating fresh strawberries for breakfast	Andrew chewing on a cookie	Holly and the Jeep after arriving at Point Lobos

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Holly in a classic anime pose	The view looking south over a patch of volcanic rock	Much of Point Lobos is composed of smoother stones in large, tidepool friendly slabs	A huge bed of sea anemones

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Holly with the ocean as a backdrop	A gravelly Point Lobos beach	Yum! Kelp!	Crabs scuttle to the nearest shelter when they spot you

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A beautiful shot of a fairly large (maybe a 4-inch carapace) exposed crab	This tiny hermit crab is brandishing a large claw he stole from a dead fiddler crab. Who does this guy think he's fooling?!	The strange alien colors of Crabworld	Holly walking along the shore

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An offcenter shot of Holly walking along tidepools	Here is Holly investigating a tidepool crevice, in which she discovers...	...a HORRIFYING CRAB ARMY!	We are crab. Resistance is useless. You will be assimilated.

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A closeup of some soldiers in the horrifying crab army	Holly at Garrapata State Beach at sunset	Andrew in his pimping coat at Garrapata	Holly hangs out on a beautiful cliff

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Holly with the Jeep at a beautiful vista point on Highway 1 south of Big Sur	The ocean view	Another ocean view	Andrew in front of the ocean to the southwest

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Holly in front of the ocean to the northwest	Andrew in front of the hills to the south

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