Half Moon Bay California
While I am no travel consultant or specialist on tourist attractions and what have you, I can talk of the prettiness and marvel of Half Moon Bay, California, having lived in the region for fourteen months, and having contacts who reside, work, and shop there. Among nature and manufacturing, the mixture, the symbiosis of two styles fitting and working together so wonderful is only bettered by the double joys of an perfect location. In other terms, Half Moon Bay, California is a coastal town with residences and businesses both on the shoreline and inland and with farming, produce, supplies, and services both "natural" and technically and industrially advanced.
The coastline of Half Moon Bay, California is a surfers' Valhalla: just a couple of weeks back, for example, the Mavericks surf contest saw hundreds of fans and spectators taking the day off and watching on the beaches to observe Grant Twiggy Baker of South Africa get first, and Tyler Smith and Brock Little take second and third, respectively, on waves surprisingly sufficient considering the weather-which was approaching hot-and the area-which is comparatively calm in ocean action.
The climate in general in Half Moon Bay, California is some of the most appealing in the state, temperate for the most part, except the few months of rain and wind storms that take out a power lines here and there. But the farmers on their ranches and the growers, of pumpkins, brussel sprouts, and other staple veggies, have reserve generators and three other "seasons" with no snow or hail or ice to threaten crops or livelihoods. Small businesses flourish, from art shops to flower bodegas like Aloha, a shop specializing in orchids-live orchids, glass orchids, and orchid portraits; and big, familiar companies serve the inhabitants by way of Safeway, Albertson's, Longs, and banks and gas stations that are easily reached but not overbearing in number of prices.
Some of the best cuisine can be found on the seashore and a few blocks inland-from fresh seafood to Italian to Asian, and visitors and locals alike can walk down to the pier, to the signed up fishermen on their boats, and buy live crab and/or lobster, which can be brought back to the house and cooked up instead of sitting in at the restaurants…which are ambient and friendly and lovely (and sensible in price, as well).
Numerous hotels, motels, inns, and bed and breakfast sites present comforts from cozy to chic, and such places as the Farallon Inn (on highway 1 in Moss Beach, five miles north of Half Moon Bay) even come with a little but superbly satisfying range of Indian food and pizza, which the Faralon's owners cook in and run. The place is so first-rate that locals and tourists alike sign the walls with sharpies, thanking the owners and chatty over the food, which is absolutely perfect-authentic to the Indian owners and amazingly top class as "Italian" fare, too.
The climate is ideal, really. The beaches are many and simple to get to. And the people are direct, welcoming, and obliging. There is, of course, a public library, a sanitation section, and quite easy-going but still by-the-book fire and police departments, as well as a chamber of commerce. With these and with the online tourist information sites, you will be pleased you choose to travel to, pass through, stay for a holiday, or reside in Half Moon Bay, California.