The days in Half Moon Bay

its a great anchorage with exellent holding, flat calm and tons of space. The tourists coming for the crabs in port is quiet a show. Mostly Chinese families were out to get a feast for their New Years dinner.
We managed to hop on a bus to see the Devils Slide , half and hour north from Pilar Point Marina. I read in the news that some mad man drove his Tesla over the cliff in an attempted suicide. He took his two
little kids and wive with him. Fortunately for them, the Tesla tumbled over the cliff and , what a miracle , landed on his wheels 100 meters down. They all survived with no major injuries. They had to rescue
them with helicopters and he is in jail now. I can understand that people want to take their lives. It beats me why you want to take your innocent kids and woman along with you. Read about the GERMAN
WINGS pilot that took an Airbus with 300 people down ...
It was quiet impressive to see the cliffs and the nice trail they made out of the old road. Many birds and bird watchers and people on bikes and jogging in peace and quiet. The best porta potty toilet i have
evre seen. Its so clean , its scary. At the end of the trail they even had a bike repair station with tools and pump on long metal wires for you to use.
A bird man showed us a huge pedigree falcon and his darling. We would have never noticed them if it wasn't for this nice man pointing them out for us. We talked about California and its nuts, the
massmurder in LA with 11 dancing couples dead and how the world is going mad.
Back in Half Moon Bay we hit the local Safeway for food . All this again with the bus for 2$ a day. You insert 2 bucks into the machine and the driver hands out your ticket. Unfortunately no ticket came out. He
told us to tell the next driver and give him his driver ID. On all other buses we told the same story and heard other passengers telling the same story. The drivers must have heard it a thousand times and they
just wave you in for free. We noticed that each and every driver is struggling with that f...ing machine. They should get a better system.
As we were heading back to port we saw many cop cars and ambulances heading to where we came from. It turned out to be ANOTHER mass murder. This time in Half Moon Bay , a sleepy peaceful village thta
didnt have a murder for 200 years.
It was an Asian man that shot 4 co-workers at a mushroom farm. Then he went to his former employer another veggie farm and shot 3 more workers. They arrested him and he claimed that he was mobbed by
the other workers and that he also had a bad day!!!
Needles to say that this shook up Half Moon Bay. Half mast flags and flowers everywhere.
Yesterday we took a bus to San Francisco and took trams and buses thru town. Seeing the main tourist attractions in one day is quiet a challenge if you come from far. We made it but took a the wrong slow
buses back and that alone took 5 hours. Our rear ends were sore but we loved the City . Too bad they didn't have any marinas in Town for cats that we could afford. We would have toured Castro a few more
days. The faces and bodies you see there, blow your mind.
We came back late. Tired , hungry but very happy we did see San Francisco, if only for a short day.
Next trip might bring us to San Luis Obispo , Point Conception or then to staright San Diego...400 miles to go and every day a little warmer.