Big Sur, CA, shaaa, fur shure!
Ok folks, here's the deet's on our honeymoon. After flying into San Jose, we hopped in our rental and went straight south on California 1 till we hit the sleepy, easy to miss metropolis of Big Sur. We stayed in a really cute cabin (number 9) at the Ripplewood Resort, which was in an old stand of redwood trees (that smelled like heaven) and was right next to a serene babbling brook/river. Such quiet! The stars came out at night, and we saw the Milky Way! Here we are on the porch of our temporary home.
One of the first things we saw was Point Lobos State Park. It's named for the sea lions, which the Spaniards called sea wolves A.K.A., lobos. We saw a good number of sea lions (and heard them too, what a racket! they just bark all day long) and a few harbor seals. No sea otters (bummer) just lots of "kelp otters" (our guide used this term to describe bull kelp bobbing in the waves that, at a distance, is easily mistaken for a sea otter). There were lots of hummingbirds too, i saw more that one flock of them buzzing about.
There are some really old cypress out on the point, around 100 years old, though they can live up to 300 years. crazy! There is also a peninsula that is believed to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" (Carmel, the town just a few miles from the park, was a big pirate town for a while, and Stevenson used to hang about in this part of CA).
Finally, i want to point out that the curves and hills of CA state highway 1 provide an excited framework to this amazing scenery. I was always amazed at what vista would open up around every turn! here's just one example....
Cheers!
posted by Christa @ 10:04 PM
2 Comments:
Those curves are plenty scary, too! Easy to misjudge and go a little too quick around a turn. Not many guardrails. I remember coming around turns and finding the road ahead half blocked by piles of fallen rocks. They were usually easy enough to get around as long as you ignore the fact that there are likely more loose boulders sitting hundreds of feet over your head.
Keep up the good work.
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