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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Favorite Places in Santa Cruz County

Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf and Capitola Wharf, Venetian Hotel & Village are my favorite places to frequent whenever I have time or friends, and family members come to visit Santa Cruz. On Municipal Wharf, you can take a long and healthy stroll to make your doctors happy. At this time of the year, you might want to stop to admire night colonies of sea lions migrating from their designated perches at the end of the wharf to the dry decks of Stagnaro’s and other families’ docks. Despite their weight and size, those poor creatures must feel cold when the darkness falls.

You can visit Capitola Wharf, Venetian Hotel and Village in one breath. They are so cutely clustered together, just like three peas in one pod. Come here whenever you think that your life is too busy and too out of control. Here time and place stop and even freeze for you. But don’t think that all is quiet in here. A few months ago, my whole family witnessed the burning of a boat on the water until a rescue ship from Monterey County came to put out the fire. “Be a tourist in your own town,” as Bob Holmes once said to me.

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