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Half Moon Bay, CA - Pillar Point RV Park - Pumpkin Weigh-Off Winner 2013

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by Bob Hamilton 10/17/2013
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Half Moon Bay 
Safeway Pumpkin Weigh-off
2013

WINNER:   Gary Miller from Napa, California

1,985 pounds




(Gary Miller, from Napa, California, with his prize winning 1,985 pound pumpkin and three grandchildren, Anna, Katie and Ben Miller)

The drama was high this year when the world record setting pumpkin grower from last year, Tim Matheson, showed up with three huge pumpkins!  Could it be a new world record was going to be crowned right here in Half Moon...
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Half Moon Bay, CA - Pillar Point RV Park - Pumpkin Weigh-Off Winner 2013

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by Bob Hamilton 10/17/2013
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Half Moon Bay 
Safeway Pumpkin Weigh-off
2013

WINNER:   Gary Miller from Napa, California

1,985 pounds




(Gary Miller, from Napa, California, with his prize winning 1,985 pound pumpkin and three grandchildren, Anna, Katie and Ben Miller)

The drama was high this year when the world record setting pumpkin grower from last year, Tim Matheson, showed up with three huge pumpkins!  Could it be a new world record was going to be crowned right here in Half Moon...
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Categories: PAMELA'S POSTS, Festivals
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Half Moon Bay, CA - Pillar Point RV Park - Pumpkin Weigh-Off Winner 2013

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by Bob Hamilton 10/17/2013
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Half Moon Bay 
Safeway Pumpkin Weigh-off
2013

WINNER:   Gary Miller from Napa, California

1,985 pounds




(Gary Miller, from Napa, California, with his prize winning 1,985 pound pumpkin and three grandchildren, Anna, Katie and Ben Miller)

The drama was high this year when the world record setting pumpkin grower from last year, Tim Matheson, showed up with three huge pumpkins!  Could it be a new world record was going to be crowned right here in Half Moon...
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Categories: PAMELA'S POSTS, Festivals
Tags: half moon bay, pumpkin festival, pillar point rv park

Half Moon Bay, CA - Pillar Point RV Park - Pumpkin Festival Time Again!

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by Bob Hamilton 09/29/2013
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by Pamela Hamilton 09/24/2013

43rd Annual HALF MOON BAY
ART & PUMPKIN FESTIVAL
October 19-20, 2013
9am-5pm
Main Street, Half Moon Bay, CA



No matter where you go in Half Moon Bay, you will see fields and fields of pumpkins waiting for children and adults to come pick them up for Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations.   That also means it's time for the Great Pumpkin Weigh-Off and the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin F...
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Half Moon Bay, CA - Pillar Point RV Park - Arts and Pumpkin Festival

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by Bob Hamilton 10/14/2012
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HALF MOON BAY
ARTS AND PUMPKIN FESTIVAL

The town of Half Moon Bay which boasts a population of approximately 13,000 turns into 350,000 over a two day period.   Considering there's only two ways in and out of Half Moon Bay, (Highway One and Highway 92, which are both single lane roads each way), it takes some savvy planning to navigate getting to the festival.


We are staying at Pillar Park RV Park.   It is only 3 miles north of Half...
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Half Moon Bay, CA - Pillar Point RV Park - 2012 Pumpkin Weigh-Off!

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by Bob Hamilton 10/08/2012
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Breaking News!
Monday, October 8, 2012

The winner of the 2012
Half Moon Bay World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off is...

Thad Starr of Pleasant Hill, Oregon
with a 1,775 pound monster pumpkin!

Prize Money: $10,650

Thad's pumpkin also set a new California state record!




 




Thad and his family...Wife Katrina, and kids Derrek and Danica.   Danica was the one who actually selected the exact seed
th...
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Half Moon Bay, CA - Pillar Point RV Park - Pumpkin Festival

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by Bob Hamilton 09/18/2012
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Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival
October 13-14, 2012



Rebecca Coffman’s fantastic design was selected as the winner of the 2012 Pumpkin Festival Poster Design Contest and is featured as the centerpiece on all promotional material for this year’s festival.

The week of celebration begins with the...

38th Annual SAFEWAY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PUMPKIN WEIGH-OFF
Monday, October 8th, 2012  at 7am
 735 Main Street, in Half Moon Bay

A special $5,00...
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RVDream.com - Half Moon Bay Pumkin Festival News

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by Pamela Hamilton 05/24/2012
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Ladies and gentlemen...
start your pumpkins! 

Organizers of the Pumpkin Festival in Half Moon Bay, California are offering a $25,000 prize to the person who can grow the first pumpkin weighing one ton.

The winning pumpkin must break the 2,000-pound threshold and be the heaviest pumpkin weighed in at the October 8th event.


Currently, the world record for heaviest-recorded pumpkin is 1,818.5 pounds, grown by Jim and Kelsey Bryson, of Wellingto...
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Half Moon Bay, California - Pillar Point RV Park

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by Pamela Hamilton 02/08/2012
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The waves woke me up this morning and if you peeked out the window of our trailer like I did, the sight would have taken your breath away.   Big beautiful waves were hitting the jetty and sending sprays of water jumping in the sky,  the sun drawing mini rainbows in the mist.  Since we've been here, that's the way most days begin!  Lucky us!

Pillar Point RV Park is located 3 miles north of Half Moon Bay off Highway 1...and...
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Tags: california coast, pacific ocean, half moon bay, pumpkin festival