Monterey is one of the great places in the world to be from late December through January. The gray whale migration is the longest migration of any mammal at around 10,000 miles from the summer feeding grounds in the Bering
Clarion Collection Hotel Atlantic Sandefjord, Norway is a unique hotel offering an historical whaling culture experience with thousands of artifacts decorating the public spaces. The county of Vestfold, Norway is where the towns of Larvik, Sandefjord and Tonsberg are located.
Norway, Iceland and Japan still hunt whales each year, despite a worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling instituted in 1986. I have seen several restaurants in Oslo advertising whale meat on the menu. The good summer weather is attributed for a
Hyatt Hotels global initiative to procure seafood responsibly in partnership with World Wildlife Fund is a program announced yesterday. The initial goal is responsibly sourcing more than 50 percent of their inventory by 2018 for seafood prepared in the hotel
Whales, Whales, Whales near Carmel-by-the-sea beach The same day a humpback whale was spotted swimming beside the Santa Cruz Wharf on the north side of Monterey Bay, we set up chairs and a beach tent on Carmel Beach and watched
Last month I passed through the Outer Banks island of Ocracoke, North Carolina for about eight hours. A 7:00am Cedar Island ferry ride to the village of Ocracoke where I stayed several hours, followed by a fourteen-mile long island road
Last week I drove 95 miles south on Highway 1 from my home in Monterey, California to Hearst Castle. Leaving at noon and making the drive in a little more than 2 hours meant no stops for scenic photographs and
There are only 12 Hyatt Hotels in the USA in category 6 hotel awards. Only one of these category 6 hotels is in California. Even though I could have stayed at any hotel in the world using my two free
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. – Anne Sophie Swetchine. Less than 15 miles after leaving my home my eyes had already sighted two pods of whales spouting off the Big
An elephant seal rookery is located about 85 miles south of Monterey and 50 miles north of San Luis Obispo on Highway 1, the coast road of Big Sur. This is probably the most accessible spot in California to see
