Santa Cruz

On Sunday evening we arrived at Santa Cruz in my new shared apartment. We went to a bar in the evening and walked to the beach in the morning before Alissa and Peter left.
Santa Cruz is a nice, little students' town, famous for hippies and surfers. There are broad bike lanes, colourful houses, solar systems on the roofs, it is located directly at the beach and the huge campus is on  a steep hill. The city makes a nice impression, I am sure I will enjoy living here during the next month - not least because of the bright sunshine all the time :-)

Seal and pelican at the pier:

 The beach. Cows look different here, their longer horns remind me rather of buffaloes.