Many years ago my grandfather owned and operated a hotel in a small town in southern Saskatchewan. He used the phrase 'Your home away from home' on his invoices and promotional items. I'm sure that hundreds or thousands of other people had used the phrase before he did, but he was very proud of it.
Carmel has become my home away from home. We've spent the last several days walking the beaches, chatting with local folks we have met on earlier trips and singing at the Mission Ranch piano bar, again with local people we sang with on past trips. We have patronized restaurants and shops which local people patronize: and I have kept in touch with local news during the year by reading the Carmel Pine Cone, the local newspaper, online.
Today we visited the Monterey Aquarium and marvelled at the diversity and complexity of ocean life.
Tomorrow will be our last complete day in Carmel on this trip. We return home on Thursday, January 24. I'm looking forward to being home but I'm already missing Carmel, its creative people, its coastline and its architecture.
I hope you enjoy these photographs from Carmel and the Monterey Aquarium. Please check my photo site for black and white photographs from earlier trips to this wonderful area.
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