Day 13 - June 20^th 2000

Got up and loaded the van in extreme heat, lucky we had no hiking today. Today we were heading to the coast, off to Monterey. We could tell we were getting close to the coast as the weather was coming in. We drove straight to our campsite via a small visit to the beach at the end of the road. We walked down to the beach. It was windy but cool, ahh the Pacific a fairly cool Pacific, 6 months worth of swimming and a half hour walk would see me at home.

We then went to the campground and unloaded the van. Gordon and I decided to take revenge from the morning when we were pummelled with sleeping bags. Well most people were paying attention, except Kate. A bag was thrown at Kates head then kaboom, bullseye, Kate's head violently bounced to one side. We nearly fell off the van laughing. A nice drive took us down to the Monterey peninsula. The fog had lifted just enough to get some good piccys off. We then spent some time in Monterey. Looked around the shops real quick. Some of us were hungry so off to this diner for some clam chowder we went. Yummmy. Into the Pebble Beach golf shop I ventured, Ouch ! don't look at those price tags and covert to Aussie $.

Then we made our final booze stop, one bottle of Gentleman Jack thank you very much : ) Back to the campground and I finally did some washing, first time since Seattle. 13 days poohey. After a beautifully cooked dinner, Veggy sausages and pasta, which unfortunately I had little room for due to the clam chowder. We filled up a wheel barrow with wood and took it to the beach. after packing the J.D and some coke of course. Let me tell you it was fun pushing a wheelbarrow though what seemed to be a mile of sand. Got a good fire going (love that lighter fluid) and drank a lot of grog. Eventually got back to the camp around 4:00 am after a very good night.