May 10th – our plan for today is to go boating with our friend Ted. His boat is a 1963 Chris Craft 17 foot Custom Ski Boat that he has owned for about 40 years. Ted arrived about 20 minutes early for our scheduled 9am departure time – Carol expected that, I guess I never noticed. We took a leisurely 45 minute drive to Lake San Antonio – a part of the Salinas Valley water supply – a beautiful drive through the oak studded hills of the Central Coast. The boat ride itself was very nice. The boat is powered by a 283 cubic inch V-8 and was designed for skiing so it has plenty of power. Ted never went too fast and frequently slowed to idle for slow cruising so we could talk and look at the scenery.
On the way back to King City we stopped at the County Park Visitor Center and museum where some years ago Ted was the proud contributor of a very large arrow head that he found on the shore of the lake. It is displayed in a case at the museum. Our second stop was at the San Antonio Mission which is located in what is now Fort Hunter-Liggett right near the fabulous ‘hunting lodge’ built by William Randolf Hearst. A group of high end classic cars was touring the area and we snapped a few pictures of the ones we could. These cars are valued up to $1million and more – according to one member of the group a couple of people flew in on private jets and helicopters to meet their cars and friends for the ride.
We stopped at a local restaurant in King City for a burger before returning to Barbie for the night. Tomorrow we are off to Pismo Beach and Morro Bay. See you then – meanwhile here are some photos from today: don’t forget to put your mouse pointer on the photo below and click on the ‘full screen’ square that appears at the bottom right of the photo.
