Pescadero: Winter calm on the coast
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A day trip to Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Pescadero Ð Portuguese for Òfishing town,Ó has 643 residents packed into a four-square mile. -
Whimsical signage point visitors to Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago, then fell in love and married Tim Duarte, general manager of Duarte's Tavern and then started getting goats and making cheese. -
Whimsical signage point visitors to Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago, then fell in love and married Tim Duarte, general manager of Duarte's Tavern and then started getting goats and making cheese. -
A curious goat at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
Pigeon Point Light house is part of a day trip to Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Located between Pebble Beach and Ano Neuvo, is the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, constructed in 1872 but close to the public since 2001 because of Òdeteriorating structural rust and corrosion and the loss of a piece of critical iron belt course that holds the tower together.Ó (The nongovernmental, nonprofit California State Parks Foundation is working to raise funds to rebuild.) -
A day trip to Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Duarte's Tavern a required stop at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Open for business since 1894 - the restaurant/tavern has won a James Beard Award for it's cuisine. -
Duarte's Tavern a required stop at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Open for business since 1894 - the restaurant/tavern has won a James Beard Award for it's cuisine. -
Three order of artichoke linguine at Duarte's Tavern a required stop at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Open for business since 1894 - the restaurant/tavern has won a James Beard Award for it's cuisine. -
Rosario Marin prepares an order of artichoke linguine at Duarte's Tavern a required stop at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Open for business since 1894 - the restaurant/tavern has won a James Beard Award for it's cuisine. -
Duarte's Tavern a required stop at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Open for business since 1894 - the restaurant/tavern has won a James Beard Award for it's cuisine. -
Duarte's Tavern a required stop at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Open for business since 1894 - the restaurant/tavern has won a James Beard Award for it's cuisine. -
A day trip to Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
There more than cheese for sale at the Cheese Shop at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
Colored steps leads to a restored Victorian hayloft serving seasonal dinners and private events at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
Succulent plants for sale at Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Vegetables for sale at Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Tim Duarte, general manager of Duarte's Tavern a required stop at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Tim is the fourth generation proprietor of an enterprising Portuguese family, the Duartes, that carved out a restaurant business as solid and lasting as their burnished wooden bar, where you can get the same spicy crab cioppino and whiskey as they served in 1894 and where everyone from NPR's Susan Stamberg to the Food Network's Guy Fieri have made pilgrimages to check out the James Beard Award-winning cuisine. -
Pigeon Point Light house is part of a day trip to Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Located between Pebble Beach and Ano Neuvo, is the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, constructed in 1872 but close to the public since 2001 because of Òdeteriorating structural rust and corrosion and the loss of a piece of critical iron belt course that holds the tower together.Ó (The nongovernmental, nonprofit California State Parks Foundation is working to raise funds to rebuild.) -
Pigeon Point Light house is part of a day trip to Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Located between Pebble Beach and Ano Neuvo, is the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, constructed in 1872 but close to the public since 2001 because of Òdeteriorating structural rust and corrosion and the loss of a piece of critical iron belt course that holds the tower together.Ó (The nongovernmental, nonprofit California State Parks Foundation is working to raise funds to rebuild.) -
Sun sets at Pescadero State Beach off Highway 1 during a day trip to the San Mateo County town of Pescadero 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Sun sets at Pescadero State Beach off Highway 1 during a day trip to the San Mateo County town of Pescadero 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Sun sets at one Pescadero's coves and beaches off Highway 1 during a day trip to the San Mateo County town of Pescadero 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Sun sets at one PescaderoÕs coves and beaches off Highway 1 during a day trip to the San Mateo County town of Pescadero 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Sun sets at one Pescadero's coves and beaches off Highway 1 during a day trip to the San Mateo County town of Pescadero 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Bean Hollow State beach is part of a day trip to Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Bean Hollow State beach is part of a day trip to Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
The Pescadero Marsh Preserve a loop of wetlands trail, small migratory shore where birds flit in and out of the 200 species of plants that provide habitat. -
The Pescadero Marsh Preserve a loop of wetlands trail, small migratory shore where birds flit in and out of the 200 species of plants that provide habitat. -
Plants for sale at Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Exotic birds at Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Plants for sale at Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Succulent plants for sale at Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Succulent plants for sale at Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Succulent plants for sale at Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Succulent plants for sale at Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay.
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Vegetables for sale at Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay.
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Phipps Ranch, a roadside attraction since 1957 at the San Mateo County town of Pescadero - 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. In late spring and summer, there are you-pick olallieberrries and strawberries to be had. An array of designer dried beans are in barrels and, out back, a menagerie of barnyard animals and a few exotic birds. -
Made in Pescadero, the handmade furniture establishment started in 1998 by Dan Periat, is housed in a drafty, industrial sheet-metal structure. Inside, though, the warm, rich texture of desks, tables, dressers is made from redwood, California walnut, bay laurel and sycamore. -
Made in Pescadero, the handmade furniture establishment started in 1998 by Dan Periat, is housed in a drafty, industrial sheet-metal structure. Inside, though, the warm, rich texture of desks, tables, dressers is made from redwood, California walnut, bay laurel and sycamore. -
Made in Pescadero, the handmade furniture establishment started in 1998 by Dan Periat, is housed in a drafty, industrial sheet-metal structure. Inside, though, the warm, rich texture of desks, tables, dressers is made from redwood, California walnut, bay laurel and sycamore. -
Made in Pescadero, the handmade furniture establishment started in 1998 by Dan Periat, is housed in a drafty, industrial sheet-metal structure. Inside, though, the warm, rich texture of desks, tables, dressers is made from redwood, California walnut, bay laurel and sycamore. ÒWe get people who come in in the summer, then call us up and custom order a desk or bed in the winter,Ó said Marcus Jones, one of four woodworkers who toil for the clientele. ÒBut some people come in and treat this place like a museum rather than a business. I tell them this isnÕt plywood, just solid, handmade stuff thatÕll last for generations. They understand.Ó -
Luna Sea boutique a funky art gallery/shop in Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Pewter plates and goblets made by local artist Dan Geraci Ð whose metal sculptures are on sale at the Luna Sea boutiqueÐat the restored Victorian hayloft serving seasonal dinners and private events at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
A long wooden table and chairs crafted by local artisan Three Fingers Bill Ð whose furniture is on the display and for sale at the Made in Pescadero shop Ðat the restored Victorian hayloft serving seasonal dinners and private events at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
A long wooden table and chairs crafted by local artisan Three Fingers Bill Ð whose furniture is on the display and for sale at the Made in Pescadero shop Ðat the restored Victorian hayloft serving seasonal dinners and private events at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
Honey for sale at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
Cheese for sale at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
Honey and olive oil for sale at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago, then fell in love and married Tim Duarte, general manager of Duarte's Tavern and then started getting goats and making cheese. -
A curious goat at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
Curious goats at Harley Farms, run by Dee Harley, the Yorkshire transplant who fell in love with Pescadero more than two decades ago and started getting goats and making cheese. -
The Pescadero Creek Inn a dilapidated farm house restored as a gorgeous bed-and-breakfast that gives a 10 percent discount to Deadheads - in Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. -
Pigeon Point Light house is part of a day trip to Pescadero a lovely two-block stretch of a town 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay. Located between Pebble Beach and Ano Neuvo, is the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, constructed in 1872 but close to the public since 2001 because of Òdeteriorating structural rust and corrosion and the loss of a piece of critical iron belt course that holds the tower together.Ó (The nongovernmental, nonprofit California State Parks Foundation is working to raise funds to rebuild.) -
Sun sets at Pescadero State Beach off Highway 1 during a day trip to the San Mateo County town of Pescadero 15 miles south of Half Moon Bay.
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