Painting and Art at the Inn

Moss Landing is such a quaint fishing village, that it is often the topic for artwork. The community has several artists in resident including painters and sculpters. At the Inn we have hosted quite a few painting and art groups. Recently we had the Jade Fon group come to stay. These painters created with oils, watercolors, and acrylics. This is one of the paintings from visiting Moss Landing Harbor by Geri Keary. You can learn more about this group of painters at their own blog: http://www. jadefonpainters.blogspot.com.

Fresh Salmon

We have been having a decent salmon sportfishing season this year. They have been catching salmon right off the coast in good numbers. There is nothing like fresh ocean caught salmon. Innkeeper Melanie's cookbook features several fresh fish recipes such as whole BBQ Salmon and Salmon Curry spread. From the Captain's Inn you can walk to the Kahuna Party Boat, or set up with the private Westwind Charters also in the Moss Landing Harbor. The season is open until September. This is a photo of the Captain with a King Salmon.

50th Anniversary

This fine Z family celebrated the 50th wedding anniversary at the Captain's Inn at Moss Landing. The anniversary couple and their children enjoyed fine fresh seafood at Moss Landing eateries, walking our beaches, and geocaching about town. We wished them many more happy years.

Cake Lady

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The Captain's Inn has a cake decorating lady who provides us cakes for all sorts of events. She does birthdays, anniversaries, reunions, and weddings. At the last event we got comments from guests about "not only pretty but yummy and moist too". She makes whimsical theme cakes too like seashells, ballerina's, sailboats in the harbor, sea otter cake, and all holidays. Here are some sample photos of her recent wedding cakes.

Surf's Up

Moss Landing is a well known surfing spot to surfers. We get nice waves as a result of our location near the submarine canyon. The Captain's Inn has international visitors that come just to enjoy the waves. This Spring has had good surf activity. Here are a few awesome shots of the acrobatics watched at our beaches that were taken by our guest C. Etchebarren.

Horseback Honeymoon

This cute pair took a horseeback ride as part of their honeymoon adventure at Captain's inn.The equestrian center meets them at nearby local beach that allows rides. They enjoyed pretty vistas from the sand dunes and waves along the beach. The professional wrangler and wonderful horses made for many romantic memories.

Snap It in Winter

Our guests are always coming to our neighborhood to go searching with their cameras in hand. The series of photos below were taken by a guest with her small snap and shoot digital Olympus. She captures our winter sandy beach, wonderful birds - a great blue heron and great egret, the mother sea otter with her pup who cruise right by the guest room windows, and even the marsh view from her bedroom window. Thanks to R. Mann for sharing these!

Vow Renewals

As Valentine's Day is upon us, it seems fitting to share a love story. This was the celebration of Robert and Terry's 15th Wedding Anniversary. They chose to renew their vows with our Captain officiating on our back deck overlooking the running tide. It was affirming to love everywhere to have this husband and wife all bleary eyed and full of caring for each other after many years of marriage. We know they will be there for each other for many years to come.

Fruits & Veggies

One of the wonderful things about our California neighborhood is the variety of fresh fruit and vegetables available year round. We love using fresh ingredients for our breakfasts. Here it is the the middle of winter and there is quite a bounty at our local Moss Landing fruit stand. The fruit stand is only a few blocks walk from the Captain's Inn and always has unusual items. We brought home: banana, dragon fruit, guyabas, cilantro, papaya, and black apricots (real yum). There are some local area strawberries and artichokes too. The dragon fruit was originally from Vietnam, the photo of the dragon fruit cut in half, and dragon fruit feels like kiwi with a much milder taste. Dragon fruit tasting slices ended up at the B&B breakfast.

Tides In and Out

Guests at the Captain's In often relax by just sitting on the decks or in their waterfront rooms, and watch the tide change. Low Tide to High Tide can be quite different. Besides the mud being exposed and salt marsh plants covered until they disappear, the wildlife changes too. We get more sea otters at high tide and more shorebirds at low tide.

Outdoors in Fall

The weather this month is so wonderful. Crisp cool nights and clear sparkly days. The wildlife watching is focused on the birds with plenty from the Inn itself and from the nearby Elkhorn Slough environs. The migration of birds is well underway. The weather has been so fine we have been having picnics in the backyard. Here is an egret off our back deck and a red shoulder hawk silouette on our rooftop.

Corvettes

This group of pretty cars and real nice folks stopped by the bed and breakfast. They had cars of many different models and dates. One of the couples had been our guests during the US Open. With advance reservations, groups can come to the inn for a historic house tour followed by a brunch in our dining room.

Fall at the Inn

Your innkeeper was arranging our harvest season decor of huge pumpkins, pretty pumpkins, quirky gourds twisted squashes, and apricot colored roses. Around the corner popped her seven year old son, "You're pretty mom, can I take you picture?". He has a little ditigal camera and snapped me at work (this is his photo). We get these lovely pumpkins and gourds from a local family farm, Borchard's. Our guests visit this farm all season and enjoy the harvest plus a haunted barn and corn maze.

Tandem Bicycle Honeymoon

Newlyweds Pete and Kati stopped in for a few nites stay with us. When they registered they noted their vehicle was a bluegreen schwinn tandem bicycle! They were taking a tandem ride down the coast of California until they reach San Diego. Their love and affection brightened the entire bed and breakfast. While here they explored the beaches and went whale watching. One morning they were spotted doing tandem yoga moves in our backyard:

impressive and elegant to watch. We wish them a wonderful future and a wonderful peddle together. You can follow their honeymoon trek on their own blog at 'http://www.livesintandem.blogspot.com'.

BBC Stops By

This week we found Toby, from BBC television, and his video camera studio in one of our guest rooms. The BBC was in Moss Landing to interview scientists who have made recent discoveries of new animal species. The MBARI scientists had discovered all sorts of strange deep sea creatures. You can see the animals and listen to the scientists on BBC's new nature series "Decade of Discovery", watch for it . How Toby got all that gear in there and still had room to sleep ........ don't know.