Moss Landing
Moss Landing is located is located on the Monterey Bay north of the Peninsula. It is home to the very visible Moss Landing power plant, a natural gas production facility with two 750 MW generators, each with a prominent 500-foot stack. Moss Landing is also home to the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (a part of several campuses of the California State University) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. It is also home to a commercial and sport fishing fleet, and the Elkhorn Slough Estuarine Research Reserve.
Power plant stacks and boat basin
Sea lions
MBARI research vessel
I am sure this boat puts in to Pebble Beach quite often
Rock doves
Pelican
Plover
Note speed limit
Pelican
Marbled godwits
Gulls take flight
Red-breasted merganser
Phil's Fish Market
Featured on Food TV's Bobby Flay "Throwdown" show
Phil's cioppino won - it's great!
(Emily with friends Joyce and Duane Gollhofer of Golden, Colorado)