Comments by Anneliese Agren

Humboldt squid spotted in Monterey Bay

Nightmares!  You couldn’t make this up, could you?  “A mysterious sea creature, up to 7 feet long, weighing up to 100 pounds, with thousands of sharp barbs on its arms. It hunts in packs of hundreds, flying through the water at 25 mph, changing color.”

Egads!

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Photo: Radar tracking station enveloped by fog

UFOs do exist.

Darin’s Monday Photo: Bluffs and Ocean

Nice shapes and textures.  :)

Photo: Raman says goodbye

That’s sad.  I will miss the beautiful chai.

Video: Documentary captures Coastside in 1980

Hey June!  I have a question for you - I was visiting your website looking for info and couldn’t find a write-up.  I’ll email you…

Video: Darin Boville re-imagines Wednesday’s fireworks

Oh man!  That was fantabulous!  Exactly how I’ve always wished fireworks would kick in more-oomph! at to end the display.  Thanks for including the audio too.

Video: Documentary captures Coastside in 1980

No Flaming Reindeer!

Oh my god what a treat is that documentary!?!  Oh!  I love the internets!  :)

Now, admittedly, here I am on the other side of the hill, but having grown up all-along the California coast, my heart is over the hill on the coast, and I love witnessing all matters concerning the coast.

This documentary is superb!  I love the coverage of the Costanoans (Ohlone, we say nowadays), and Malcolm looks terrific (geez, has it really been almost thirty years!?), and the man describing the “autonomous island” - wonderful!  I didn’t know Westinghouse Corporation originally built the golf course.  An additional note to that “subdivision overlooking the Pacific,” is that it also overlooks the San Gregorio Fault!  The Pacinis are so dear - “Four inches!”

Oh, and the mention of the overcrowded 92, (some things never change, eh?), Ron Mikelson is spot-on that the problem isn’t the overcrowding and that widening the road (even today) is not the answer - take a look at Laguna Canyon Road (down south), and see that even adding the toll road isn’t the answer, because, if ye build it, thou will come - just keep it how it is and let the overcrowding limit anyone else from wanting to make the trek.  (Just my humblest of opinions.)

Thank you Coastsider for mentioning that this documentary is available for all to view.  Sorry my comment is so long, but but but - that was great watching.  :)

p.s. I support the Mountain’s decision, too.

Darin’s Monday Photo: Hawk and Raven

Get out!  How’d you find such a serendipitous avian appearance?

Kenny Howell: Messing Around In Boats

That was fun!  Next time do we get to learn the pop-up, or whatever the technical term is for right-siding without popping out of the spray skirt?  :)

I want to see hidden coves too.

I either decide to wait for more of your clips, or get out on my own.  :)

Thanks for the video!

KQED reports on Devil’s Slide

y’know...Devil’s Slide reporters will be as prevalent over these next three years of visible construction on Highway 1, as are the Halloween visitors on Highway 92 every October.

Missing man last seen in Big Sur

OMG!  This is everywhere, now here!

I just returned from a whirlwind Big Sur trip.  Fliers canvassing this guy’s disappearance line Highway One.  I was wondering the details, so in a strange way, thanks for posting this here. 

Sending powerful thoughts that they find out what is going on.  I was down there solo myself and got really creeped out!

Video Column: Messing Around In Boats

That was so much fun!  Relief from work via Coastsider - Thank you!  :)

What’s wrong with downtown Half Moon Bay?

Okay, I’m going to say it, and I’m not trying to be controversial here: the problem is that there have been many shops going in that locals are not interested shopping at, nor could they afford the fashionable clothing or craftsy home interior products for sale.

Then, the type of tourists who visit HMB are not looking to buy the type of clothing, nor the collectibles for their home, from these shops.  They wander after eating, they enjoy strolling Main Street, but are they really there to buy stuff they could easily find over the hill back home?

Restaurants do well, as, it seems do the bookstores (what are there, like, four bookshops within walking distance?).

Prices are a bit crazy in the cafés and bakeries.  I paid $4.00 for an Odwalla at Moonside last weekend.  Ouch.

Popeye’s coming into the scene doesn’t make sense in town that sought signatures for a Trader Joe’s.  Peet’s I can understand.  If it were a Starbucks coming, I’d woefully shake my head and mutter, “There goes the neighborhood.” Did the Trader Joe’s petition get enough signatures?  I lost touch with that issue.

In summary, I’ll mention what happened to Laguna Beach where I grew up in the 70s.  Amidst a food co-op, old fashioned drugstores, surf shops, and a natural foods stand, were many galleries, which weren’t necessarily a problem.  The galleries attracted a certain type of tourist.  It’s when a coastal town begins to have frozen yogurt and t-shirt shops that you know the town is really in trouble.  That’s the sign that the local color has definitely departed.  That’s what happened to Laguna in the 80s and it was never the same since. 

Hopefully the downtown of HMB won’t gentrify itself to accomodate a deeper pocket tourist.  More local color please.  Is it easy for creative, local, small businesses to secure an accomodating lease in a downtown space?  Maybe that’s the problem, property owners set the lease too high.  Like, as is the case with the chai shop getting booted out.  Anyone who has ever drank a sip of that chai would know that that is too special a treat to let go away.

Sorry to write so much.

Hwy 1 one-way-only until about 6:30pm

After Carl posted where this slide occurred, and that it has nothing to do with the actual Devil’s Slide area, I had to drive over to see exactly for myself.  :) Now I get it. 

This is the area that my geology professor took us to analyze a couple of years ago.  This lump of earth is a pile of centuries of landslides and streambeds that have been tilted and exposed by the faults’ activity.  The area’s doing its thing, that it’s been doing for the ages, and then we complain of its effects on the road built through there.

Aren’t we humans the funniest?

Yes, if a large project is sold to us to make it all better, it won’t.  We can’t stop Mother Nature, just shovel her out of the way now and then.  :)

Hwy 1 one-way-only until about 6:30pm

Man, I don’t know if the current Devil’s Slide Highway One can last until the tunnel is complete!  This is going to be interesting to watch.  I hope no one gets hurt during this time.

Video: Elephant Seals at Año Nuevo

Oh man, see, this is why I enjoy Coastsider so much.

Why oh why do I have to live/work on the other side of the hill?

Thank you for the vicarious living.  :)

Coastsiders working to save local coffee and chai shop from replacement by chain

How about if a pedestrian bridge is built to aid foot traffic between Burger King and Popeyes over Highway One?  Now there’s an idea!
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(Sorry if my silliness isn’t appreciated.)

Coastsiders working to save local coffee and chai shop from replacement by chain

That is just about the saddest story I’ve ever heard!  I love Peet’s and read this not as a Peet’s story, - it’s a landlord making assumptions and not communicating story.  I hope things work out for Mr. Bechar.  :(

Darin’s Monday Photo: Bat star at Fitzgerald Marine Preserve, Moss Beach

Lovely!  Just what I need to see, stuck inside an office in San Carlos this sunny warm winter day. :)

Anneliese Agren

Opinion: James brings Christmas to Half Moon Bay

Oh that’s just beautiful.  I’ve got tears.  True spirit of the holiday.  Thank you so much for sharing this with us!  :)

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