But fog obscured the shoreline, making the waters of the large, open Monterey Bay look like open ocean, and they failed to discern the coastline's semi-circular shape, described by Vizcaíno as round like an " O ", even though members of the party had twice marched along its beach.

The water is also cold compared to other beaches in the Monterey area, due to its exposure to the open ocean and the upwelling of cold water from nearby Monterey Canyon, which funnels the icy water right to shore at this location.

So, not long before Suzuki's death, he did open a zendo in his home in Monterey, California.

It hugs the rugged coastline and has wide open views of Carmel Bay, opening to the Pacific Ocean, on the south side of the Monterey Peninsula.

The ' Secret Gardens of Old Monterey ' are part of the open air museum for visitors.

While returning to Monterey, he located the original sites for Mission Santa Clara de Asis and the town of San José de Guadalupe ( modern day San Jose, California ), but again did not establish either settlement.

Mission San Antonio de Padua is a Spanish mission established by the Franciscan order in present-day Monterey County, California, near the present-day town of Jolon.

* Carmel Highlands, California, a small, unincorporated town located in Monterey County

* Carmel Valley Village, California, another small, unincorporated town in Monterey County

Mendocino was depicted as turn-of-the-20th-century Monterey in the James Dean classic East of Eden, and it served as a New England resort town in Summer of ' 42 ( the latter film featuring numerous local Mendocino High School students as extras ).

Castroville was founded by Juan Bautista Castro in 1863 and is the second oldest town in Monterey County.

The town sits between its two well known neighbors, Pebble Beach and Monterey.

Initially, the town developed around a stage stop on the Monterey Trail, though after the railroad passed by east of town, Elk Grove's center shifted to its present location.

The town, then located in Monterey County, was founded November 19, 1868 when the San Justo Homestead Association purchased the property from William Welles Hollister ( 1818 – 1886 ).

For many years, the Mission served the town as an active parish church of the Diocese of Monterey.

Monterey is a town in Tippecanoe Township, Pulaski County, Indiana, United States.

Monterey lies along Route 23, the main east-west route through town.

Monterey is one of five towns that operate the Southern Berkshire Regional School District ( a sixth town, Mount Washington, also sends students to the district's schools ).

The town of Monterey was set off and incorporated as its own town in 1847.

The town is four sided, and is bordered by Lee to the north, Becket and Otis to the east, Monterey to the south, and Great Barrington.

* Monterey – A hamlet in the south-central part of the town.

Monterey is a town in Putnam County, Tennessee, United States.

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Monterey was a resort town that boasted seven hotels and drew summer people who came to enjoy the cool temperatures and mountain scenery.

With the invention of the automobile, Monterey became less of a resort town.

The town of Great Barrington is neighbored by the towns of Lee, Stockbridge and West Stockbridge to the north, Alford and Egremont to the west, Sheffield and New Marlborough to the south, and Monterey and Tyringham to the east.

Portolà landed in Monterey Bay in 1770, and with Father Junípero Serra, who helped found most of the missions in California, established the town Monterey, which became the capital of the Spanish colony Alta California.

Monterey Jack, or " Monty " to his friends, is an adventure-loving Australian mouse who spent years traveling the world before a chance meeting with Chip and Dale during their first case.

In 2001, at the age of seventy-nine, Fletcher was struck and seriously injured by an SUV while walking to a town meeting near his home in Monterey County, California.

The Sunnyside Conservatory ( at Monterey Boulevard and Congo Street ) is an 1890s botanical garden and restored hot house, completely restored in 2009, which now serves as a meeting room for community groups.

Laura Scudder, an entrepreneur in Monterey Park, California started having her workers take home sheets of wax paper to iron into the form of bags, which were filled with chips at her factory the next day.

They form a ridge along the San Francisco Peninsula, south of San Francisco, separating the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco Bay and the Santa Clara Valley, and continuing south, bordering Monterey Bay and ending at the Salinas Valley.

In its earliest form, Monterey Jack was made by the Mexican Franciscan friars of Monterey, California, during the 19th century.

The Monterey location had been known as the site for the long-running Monterey Jazz Festival and Monterey Folk Festival ; the promoters saw the Monterey Pop festival as a way to validate rock music as an art form in the way jazz and folk were regarded.

In 1933 San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties were split off to form the Monterey Bay Area Council.

" Little Wing ", as Hendrix himself said, was his impression of the Monterey Pop Festival put into the form of a girl.

The military still has a presence at Fort Ord, in the form of several California Army National Guard units, facilities administered by the Presidio of Monterey, and the continued operation of the base PX and Commissary catering to the active duty military stationed in the Monterey area as well as retirees who chose to settle in the area and are entitled to shop at such facilities.

The prickly sharks in Monterey Canyon regularly form aggregations that may number over thirty.

The Monterey County government won a landmark court case in 1962, affirming its right to ban billboards and other visual distractions on Highway 1.

On November 7, Alvarado wrote to his uncle Mariano, informing Vallejo he had claimed to be acting under Vallejo's orders and asking him to come to Monterey to take part in the government.

In 1670, following orders from the Spanish government, the Count of Monterey built a fort in Obbrussel as part of the fortifications of Brussels to protect the city of Brussels against possible attacks.

The cost of the Alta California government ( what little there was ) was borne by a roughly 40-100 % import tariff collected at the entry port of Monterey, California.

Monterey is in the local government area of the City of Rockdale.