Sights and lodgings in the Monterey Peninsula

Monterey Bay as seen from from the dunes of Sand City.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

Monterey State Beach at sunset.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

A lone cypress can be seen on the famous 17-Mile Drive.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

A pair of cyclists ride into the fog on the 17-Mile Drive.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

Tom Watkins and Coco Nolasco enjoy a day trip to Asilomar Beach in a 1961 Ford Galaxie Sunliner.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

Flowers flourish just beyond Point Pinos Lighthouse in Pacific Grove.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

Savannah Castillo, left, and Tessa Eagle wait on a dock of Old Fisherman’s Wharf.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

A dog awaits the return of its owner from a small dock at Old Fisherman’s Wharf.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

A look inside the garden of the historic Robert Louis Stevenson House.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

Beebe, a 7-year-old Saker Falcon, is just one of a handful of hawks and falcons from Tactical Avian Predators that help control the number of seagulls and birds at Pebble Beach Golf Course.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

Celebrating her upcoming birthday, Sally Leighton, with Edward Neathery, takes a moment to consult a map before heading out from the Butterfly Grove Inn, where they were staying.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

Inside one of the Surrey Lane rooms at the Los Laureles Lodge.  (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)