GORDA TO BIG SUR

Not much stories to tell, just beautiful scenery, basically to be summed up in steep rocky coastline with ocean view.  But no matter how many pictures you take, it doesn‘t seem like enough.  A few days back we met this lady at a rest stop who had just come down the coast from Big Sur.  When we told her what we were doing all’s she could say was “bless you, down those steep winding roads, bless you, bless you….”    Well with all those blessings WE MADE IT.   Not that I am all that religious, but I will take anything that I can.

She was right, winding steep roads with no shoulder over a lot of the way.  However, it didn’t seem all that nerve wracking or stressful….maybe because we were caught up in the scenery.

I have pictures of a rockslide shed being built.  Quite impressive, all this colored concrete.  Unfortunately, I didn’t take pictures until after we went through, and they hadn't colored the concrete on the uphill side yet.  You can see the large timber guardrails.. only they are concrete, not timber.  Also because we were on bikes we were able to pull over onto the old road and observe the big bridge structure we had just road our bikes up…..COOL! (OKAY OKAY I am an engineer at heart, live with it)

Took pictures of a barking seal.  We couldn’t see them but could hear them, but only one or two.  My camera has a good zoom, but you can’t see the screen with sun glasses on and I can’t see without cheaters, (I have cheap safety glasses with cheaters – paid a whole $9 for them…Grainger).  Anyhow, I zoomed down and took some pics.  When we looked at them on the Surface (Microsoft tablet) we found a whole rock of them.  You too can look at the pics and play looking for Waldo with the seals.   

Last big hill into Big Sur seemed to be the hardest, seemed steeper, could have been we were tired from the climbing.  Worst traffic event of the trip….. I had gone ahead on the hill and crossed the street to wait for Barb, ath corner was a hairpin turn with rock face on the inside with about 1.5 feet of shoulder outside of the fog line.  Next thing I knew a UPS truck came barreling around the corner with its inside wheel over the fog line.  I waved to slow down, he swerved back onto his side of the fog line, missed Barb and we all lived to see another day. 

Into the Big Sur Campgrounds and Cabins, set up camp, and off to dinner.  Goodnight.

you can see the road ahead across the bay

Kirk creek campground.....where we paid but didn't stay

hey there is actually a shoulder here!!!!!

this one is for Brent!

look for the seals

it did eventually....stop going up!