Table of Contents
(listed from northwest to southeast)

Marina, Fort Ord, and Seaside (2)

Historic Monterey, the Old Capital (8)

Monterey Beach and Harbor (7)

Monterey Bay Aquarium (5)

Cannery Row (10)

Shoreline of Pacific Grove (7)

Lovers Point (5)

Pacific Grove (9)

Asilomar (7)

Carmel-by-the-Sea (8)

Carmel Mission (8)

Carmel Mission Ranch (2)

Carmel Beach and Carmel Bay (4)

Granite Point (5)

Whalers Cove (4)

North Shore Trail, Whalers Knoll (7)

Pinnacle Point (5)

SeaLion Point (2)

The South Shore of Point Lobos (5)

Carmel Highlands (1)

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listed from northwest to southeast

Marina, Fort Ord, and Seaside

Marina State Beach on Monterey Bay.

The racetrack at Laguna Seca.

Historic Monterey, the Old Capital

The old Hotel Del Monte, now the Naval Postgraduate School.

The Memory Garden behind Pacific House, Old Monterey.

The Sensory Garden, Olivier Street, Old Monterey.

Statue of Juan Gaspar de Portola, Monterey Conferece Center.

The Stokes Adobe, at the corner of Polk and Hartnell Streets, Monterey.

Friendly Plaza, with the "moon redwood".

Colton Hall on Pacific Street.

Soldier Field, on the Presidio of Monterey.

Monterey Beach and Harbor

Estero Beach, north of Monterey harbor.

On Monterey's commercial fishing wharf.

Monterey harbor viewed from the commercial fishing wharf.

Covered walkway at the old Custom House.

Inside the old Mexican custom house, Monterey.

Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey.

Pocket beach west of Fisherman's Wharf.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Across from the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Cannery Row.

Hovden Way and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

On Hovden Way, opposite the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Monterey Bay Aquarium view over the bay.

Coastal access at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Cannery Row

Cannery Row at the foot of Prescott Street.

Steinbeck Plaza on Cannery Row, Monterey.

A view over Monterey Bay from Steinbeck Plaza on Cannery Row.

The beach at Steinbeck Plaza, Cannery Row.

A pedestrian and bike path follows the old railroad line through Cannery Row.

Carousel, inside the old Edgewater Packing Company building, Cannery Row.

Overlooking Bistro on the Bay at the Monterey Plaza Hotel, Cannery Row.

On the beach below the Monterey Plaza Hotel.

Memorial to Doc Ricketts, located where he was hit by a train.

The David Packard Memorial at San Carlos Beach.

The Shoreline of Pacific Grove

Point Piños Lighthouse.

The upstairs room in the Point Piños lighthouse.

Crespi Pond on the Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Course.

Surf on the rocky shore near Point Piños.

Magic carpet iceplant along the clifftop path, Pacific Grove.

Pacific Grove shoreline near the Seven Gables Inn.

"Life at the Top" sea otter sculpture.

Lovers Point

The sheltered cove at Lovers Point.

On the old landing in Lovers Point Cove.

The grassy park at Lovers Point.

The rocky promontory at Lovers Point.

On the clifftop path near Lovers Point, Pacific Grove.

Downtown Pacific Grove

Lighthouse Avenue in downtown Pacific Grove.

Downtown Pacific Grove.

Historic Holmans Department Store, now an antiques mart.

Pacific Grove City Hall on Forest Street.

On 16th street in the Methodist "encampment" area of Pacific Grove.

Chataqua Hall, the heart of old Pacific Grove.

The restored Chataqua Hall in the Pacific Grove encampment area.

The Natural History Museum of Pacific Grove.

Presbyterian Church, Pacific Grove.

Asilomar

Spanish Bay Beach in summer.

The gates to Asilomar State Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove.

Merrill Hall at Asilomar.

The "meadow" at Asilomar, replacing pines with cypress.

Boardwalk through the dunes at Asilomar.

Lodge unit at Asilomar State Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove.

Monarch butterfly wintering area at the Butterfly Grove Inn.

Carmel-by-the-Sea

War memorial on Ocean Avenue, Carmel.

Court of the Fountain, San Carlos Street, Carmel.

The Carmel public library, Ocean Avenue.

Courtyard of the Pine Inn, Ocean Avenue, Carmel.

Carmel's Lamplighter Inn.

Cottages at the Lampligher Inn on Ocean Avenue, Carmel.

The Cottage of Sweets, a Carmel institution.

The Cottage of Sweets on Ocean Avenue, Carmel.

Carmel Mission

The entry courtyard at Carmel Mission.

The historic cemetery at Carmel Mission.

The meditation garden at Carmel Mission.

Next to the tower at Carmel Mission.

The courtyard between the basilica and the school, Carmel mission.

In the church at Carmel Mission.

Next to the altar in the Carmel Mission basilica.

The Serra Chapel and effigy at Carmel Mission.

Carmel Mission Ranch

Carmel Mission Ranch, owned by Clint Eastwood.

Meadows at the mouth of the Carmel River from the Mission Ranch.

Carmel Beach and Carmel Bay

On the dune at the top of Carmel Beach.

Scenic Drive along the Carmel oceanfront.

Robinson Jeffers' Tor House on the Carmel shore. 

Monastery Beach on a sunny morning.

Granite Point

Ixchenta Point, northern boundary of Point Lobos.

On top of Granite Point.

Above the pocket beach known as "The Pit".

The smuggler's cove on Coal Chutre Point.

At the tip of Coal Chute Point.

Whalers Cove and Granite Point

Harbor seals at the north end of Whalers Cove.

The Whaler's Cottage, now a small museum.

On Cannery Point, above the old cannery site.

On the ridge south of Whalers Cove.

The North Shore Trail and Whalers Knoll

Looking west over Bluefish Cove.

Monterey pine forest above Bluefish Cove.

Looking out of the cypress grove to Guillemot Island.

On the sheltered south side of Big Dome.

The view from the west end of Whaler's Knoll.

The Veteran Cypress.

The Viewpoint at North Point.

Pinnacle Point

Red lichen on the cypress trees. 

On the trail above Pinnacle Cove.

The rocky headland at Pinnacle Point.

Looking south over Headland Cove.

In the Allan Memorial Cypress Grove.

SeaLion Point.

At the top of Sea Lion Point: Punta de los Lobos Marinos.

Looking south from the Sea Lion Point trail.

The South Shore of Point Lobos

Eroded rocks, beloved of photographers, on the south shore of Point Lobos.

On the trail above China Cove.

The Bird Island trail above China Cove.

Pelican Point and Bird Island.

Above Gibson Beach on the south boundary of Point Lobos.

Carmel Highlands

Spindrift Drive hugs the shore in Carmel Highlands.

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