Monday, October 29, 2018

California – Big Sur


Big Sur is the 90-mile stretch of scenic highway from Carmel to San Simeon. It’s a windy drive over treacherous turns with steep drop-offs, but has incredible views. It was closed for 14 months due to a landslide, but fortunately reopened in July.

On the left side in the picture below is the 80-foot high McWay Falls, California’s only coastal waterfall that drops straight into the sea.
We took a half mile hike down to Partington Cove in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. The trail took us to two parts. To get to the first part we went through a tunnel.

Here’s the view on the other side of the tunnel

We had lunch here.
 
The second part took us to a rocky cove.
 
The lighting was great at the end of the day.
The Bixby Bridge
We saw this guy painting the scene and he was fine with us taking a picture of him.


We enjoyed seeing the sunset.