The Tides Wharf Restaurant

Breakfast was at The Inn at the Tides' other restaurant: The Tides Wharf Restaurant. This one is on the site of the restaurant in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and humorously a TV shows the film at the entrance. While the food isn't the "fine dining" of the Bay View Restaurant, the location directly on the water is a fabulous place to sip your morning coffee.

Bay View Restaurant

It was appropriate for our anniversary dinner in the small seaside town of Bodega Bay to have seafood (salmon and Manhattan clam chowder) and a view of the water. And although the restaurant is called Bay View, we now know that it's actually more of a harbor view. Regardless, food and scenery were top notch.

suite with a view

Our suite at The Inn at the Tides had a lovely view of Bodega Harbor, Bodega Bay, and the hotel's very popular swimming pool. In an alternate universe I might have heaved myself in that pool, had it not been so popular.

Bodega Harbor

The almost fully enclosed Bodega Harbor is very calm and seemingly shallow. We drove to the end of the Doran Spit where a channel connects the harbor with the bay.

Doran Beach

Bodega Bay has an interesting geography that can be confusing at first. We drove on the Doran Spit to Doran Beach, which faces the ocean in a southeasterly direction. This body of water, Bodega Bay, extends south to Point Reyes National Seashore and Tomales Bay - the famous submerged rift created by the San Andreas Fault. That fault line also runs through Bodega Harbor, which is on the other side of the spit. Got it?

The Tides Wharf, part 2

The Tides Wharf

A more close range introduction to Bodega Bay happened here at The Tides Wharf. This was the site of the restaurant in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". Appropriately there were a few birds.