Pacific Biological Laboratories

Today was the day!!! I have been a HUGE fan of the book Cannery Row and John Steinbeck for decades. As a lifelong local I always wondered what the inside of this place looked like! They offer free...

I hesitate in writing even this. I wrote a lengthy review and deleted it. I don't want to give it away. I don't want it to cheapen it with more [censored] trotting around and trying to steal off...

I'm writing a review of the actual inside of the lab, and a thanks to the Cannery Row foundation for running tours. The lab/house of Dr. Ed Ricketts is interesting--at the top of the stairs from...

As a big fan of John Steinbeck and Ed "Doc" Ricketts, and a Ph.D. in Biology (big science nerd), the PBL was a "must-see for me. While it has been modified since Ricketts died, it still has the...

Right next door to the Monterey Bay Aquarium is Pacific Biological Laboratories, the place where Doc Ricketts carried out many of his studies of intertidal invertebrates. If you're an invert nerd,...