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Vacation 2018

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View from our hotel door at San Simeon, California

The Beach

We waited to get some good sunset shots

Hearst Castle - The guy had good taste (and money)

The pool has been under repair for years due to cracks, with no water in it. We were lucky enough to see it 2 weeks after repairs were completed.

Genuine Ancient Egyptian statues dating back 3500 years

The front door

Living Room

Dining Room

Hand carved wood ceiling

Game Room

One of the "Villas" his guests would stay at

Gold, decorating the floor of the indoor swimming pool

An airfield and the land his exotic animals wandered on. We saw some zebras that were descended from the original ones he had.

His personal movie theatre.

There were rows of these on each side of the theatre. When the screen was operating their eyelids were lowered the closer they were to the screen.

On the way to Monterey Bay, elephant seals

Video of Elephant Seals

A nice place we stopped at for breakfast

The Monterey Bay Aquarium

Octopus

Otters

He was trying hard to extract something from that cylinder

Jelly Fish

Video of Jelly Fish 1

Video of Jelly Fish 2

Video of Jelly Fish 3

An odd fish with fins above and below

Penguins

Video of Penguins

Eel

Yosemite

The Grand Canyon

Video of Grand Canyon

The small spot of water at 60X zoom

Video of Water Flowing

A small spot of green zoomed in

Zoomed in more; there are buildings down there

A bridge above the water

Zoomed in, with boats to the left

You can see 2 people on the bridge

A Helicopter

Zoomed in

Near the lunch stand

As we were leaving, a herd of elk crossing the road

Fantastic hotel. Many amenities, excellent food.

Meteor Crater, Arizona. It hit 50000 years ago.

Video of Meteor Crater

The Painted Desert

A double rainbow

A long petrified log

Huge pieces of petrified wood everywhere

With roots!

A resident

A very memorable trip!