My daughter's description of our time in Morro Bay, California

In the summer of 2019 I took my daughter on another road trip from San Francisco to Carlsbad. This is my daughter's account from our time in Morro Bay.

“Write down as much as you can remember in an interesting way” says Roy Kerckhoffs while I start this. I remember that we were driving back down to Carlsbad and we stopped to get some lunch. We drove to the nearest place and parked near the docks. We crossed the street and walked to the docks. Someone was looking and pointing at something to someone. My dad and I went to check it out. It was a sea otter! My patronus, you know from Harry Potter? The animal that will protect you from evil creatures? So we saw the otter and I realized that I didn’t have my camera on me. So I tell my dad this and we walk back to the car. It felt like 15 miles away…. So far away. Anyways I got my camera and we went back there. Sadly the otter had ditched us, and swam somewhere else, OR went to get a snack. Then he came back.

SO CUTE! So I took about… uh… 16 pictures? So after getting over my obsession with the sea otter, we went to have lunch. I’m pretty sure we tried to get tacos but they weren’t open. Then we found like two other places that we could’ve eaten at. But they weren’t open. So after the loooooong search to find a place to eat, we found a place. After eating we went back out to the dock, and the otter was still there. But this time there was also a seagull. ‘MORE PICTURES, WOOO!’ I’m yelling in my head. This time only one.

My dad took more. We went on the dock smelling of dead fish. Great thing to smell when you just ate and are full. He took pictures of the dock, Morro Rock from afar, and I believe some boats. Once we started walking to the car, he said to me, “Hey, why don’t we check out Morro Rock?” Or something like that. I just say, “Sure.” So we drive over there, park the car, get out of the car, and see two ways we can walk. TWO! I’ve never went to a rock that’s I dunno 35 times the height of me and is like, “I is a huge rock, here are two ways to walk so you admire my beauty!” So we walk right first which allowed me to get more pictures. Of some bird,

A snipe I think it's called:

And a dog.

Cause why not. Once we’re done exploring the right side, we walked to the left side, and someone comes up to us and tells us that there are anemones over by the rocks. We start heading that way. We see a group of people putting on sunscreen, I look at the back of their shirts and they were the junior life guards! Dun dun daaaa! Anyways we keep walking and find the rocks the people were talking about. I remember I didn’t know how to get through, and my dad with his long legs gets by and ditches me. So I call out something like, “Wait! I needs help!” He helps me and we get through to see the anemones. My mom loves touching them. I don’t know why but that fact creeped us out. My dad touched it and its tentacle things moved around like trying to get a grip on his finger. It was creepy. So we start walking back and we see the junior life guards running around. We walked back towards the car and see a lot of people crowded around one certain area. We look and see a raft of sea otters, with baby sea otters too.

I remember counting them and there were like 27? I remember saying, “I will never forget this moment.” So I got a bit bored after a while and took some pictures of more dogs, seagulls and squirrels or are they chipmunks?

I remember walking back, and seeing a beach so we go over there and I’m taking photos of dogs. Then we get a call from my mom. We answer and say stuff. Then while my mom and dad are talking, I see this:

Four birds lined up in a row! I’ve told as much as I can remember, and I hope you enjoyed!

Kate

Read Roy's account here.