Big Sur

About one third of the way down Highway 1 is Big Sur, a recreational centre of national standing. It would be wall to wall with tourists in mid-summer, but we were there in mid-winter and crowds were thinner. However, the weather was beautiful and welcome. We stayed for two nights in a two-bedroom unit at the Big Sur Lodge run by the state national parks service. Here is our place in the lodge - warm and comfortable and we spied local wild turkeys from time to time.

Our rooms were at the entrance to the park and we took several trails, one to the waterfall below and another to a ridge overlooking the Big Sur River.The whole area had nice stands of redwoods, a tree featuring in an earlier post.

And nearby, there was a federally managed National Park on the coast which contained some lovely coastal scenery. We explored the beach thoroughly, looking at purple sands, climbing rock faces, jumping a creek running across the beach, looking through numerous holes in the stacks, and eventually watching the sun go down - before returning to the lodge in the dark.

It was a lovely day out!

AS