Camping in Cambria June

We left a bit later than we had planned.   Note to anyone driving from Fresno to the Central Coast  in June- all cars MUST have air conditioning!  Boy was it hot. 

The grapevine in Paso Robles Wine area were beautiful!  In another month or so they will have those mylar strips to keep the birds off and the vines will sparkle in the wind. 

We didn't book our campsite in advance.  When we arrived the ranger lady said that we could have a site for the first night but we'd have to check back the next morning for Saturday night and we may not be in the same site.  The first site we were given was just what Scott wanted (by the creek) but since we now bought the biggest tent in the world it didn't fit.  We ended up in a sight we'd stayed in before in the upper level of the campgrounds.  

After setting up camp we were so sticky from the car ride we took showers.  No frongs in the showers this time. :-)  We were a bit tired from the drive so we decided to walk about in town and buy our lottery tickets (we always play when we are in Cambria).

We decided to have dinner in town instead of just a snack.  We ate at Main Street Grill.  Scott had fish and chips and I had a hot dog and onion rings with ranch. 

We went to Moonstone Beach Drive to watch the sun set to find that our bench was gone and the shore was foggy.  The sun and fog gave me a headache.  We sat in our car for a while playing with Scott's new binoculars and watching pellicans fly by and an otter swimming.  Our cat Teeter looks like an otter sometimes.  The both lay on their backs showin' the belly.

Before we went back to camp we decided to drive to where the Ranch Trails are.  We ended up finding a new bench off the bluff trail and sat there a while as it got dark.  It was so pretty, so many flowers!  And the bench was off trail a bit so a bit more private, much more private than our old bench.

When we got back to camp we realized that Scott didn't put the bags of dry food in the van.  We had no hot chocolate or dessert stuff.  We drove to a mini mart in San Simeon- No hot chocolate and the Cookie Crock Market in Cambria closes at 9:00.  

We went back to camp and talked by the fire.