You wanted visuals of the walk to the Carmel end of the Pebble Beach golf course the other day. I didn’t take pics myself so here are a few from Pebble Beach the company and a blogger.
This is the famous and infamous 9th hole. You can see how it would be rather tricky to play – and hot damn it’s a pretty place to take a stroll.
Here’s how it looks as you approach it.
At the base of those cliffs there’s a little beach called Stillwater Cove.
This is approaching the far end – those houses are in Carmel, not on the course, and the beach is Carmel Beach.
This one is near the beginning rather than the end, but it shows the hills I mentioned.
You can see why playing a round there would be on people’s bucket lists.
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11 responses to “Pebble Beach to Carmel”
That is seriously lovely. Thanks Ophelia. I bet that beach steepens up a fair bit with winter storms.
Yup.
Another thing about the area is that the Monterey Canyon is there, which means an abundance of marine life.
http://www.mbari.org/canyon/Mapping_Sections.htm
Wow!
All golf courses, everywhere, are a blight.
Imagine what that landscape looked like before they plowed it flat and planted that useless grass on it.
@ 4 chigau
*rolls eyes*
I take it you’re a “glass half empty” sort of person.
(I can think of approximately a kabillion things more blight-y that could have been built there instead of the “useless grass”.)
I actually got to tour MBARI– my marine biology instructor knew people there. So cool.
Chigau isn’t wrong. There were a few patches of trees left standing. Those and the soil texture made us think it used to be pretty wooded most of the way to the water.
I agree with Chigau – vast acreages of previously beautiful land are being destroyed so that the idle and wealthy can play a giant game of billiards.
I dislike the environmental destruction.
I sort of thought that went without saying – no, golf courses are seldom or never the best use of a given piece of land. It’s not just that they demolish trees, they also use herbicides, suck up a lot of water, mow heavily, etc.
But this post wasn’t meant to be taken as a public relations exercise for golf courses. It was meant to be taken as an illustration of a walk I described in an earlier post. That post was meant to be taken as just a report on a walk I took. The golf course is there, I can’t do anything about it, and since it is there, I take advantage of the killer views it offers.
And for a slight complication: at the other end of 17 Mile Drive there’s the Spanish Bay course and resort, which is where my employers’ condo is. Before the course was built, it was a gravel quarry. The course is laced with rough habitat, which the quarry was not.
Anyway, thanks for pissing in the soup, chigau. You’re always a delight.
My neck of the woods. I was brung up in a place very like that. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2009/4/9/1239272417805/Stone-farm-buildings-in-t-001.jpg
I’m betting you meant to post this on the Robin Hood’s Bay one?
Carmel and Pebble Beach do have stone houses, but they’re…how shall I put this…fake.