Pics from July 4 hike at Point Lobos (near Monterey). Dial-up hell!

[Shakespeare]

Half the day was beautiful and sunny, the other half foggy and otherwordly.









Do you see the face?

[LostinVA]

1. Nice, except you forgot one thing

A picture of your Freeper BF.

[Shakespeare]

2. HAHA.

Here ya go, from a few months ago:

:loveya:

[LostinVA]

3. UGH

Hannity's "Separated at Birth."

hehehehehhehehehe

:pals:

[Shakespeare]

4. ??

I no understand.

[DS1]

5. me either

I don't want to punch CA in the face :shrug:

[LostinVA]

6. I'm teasing

I'm saying he looks like Hannity's twin, when he clearly doesn't -- he's cute.

[Shakespeare]

8. OH, okay.

I was all confuzzled for a minute there. :-)

The move-in date has been moved UP to next weekend, btw. Yay!

[LostinVA]

15. Yay!!!

[GOPisEvil]

7. Love the barren/lush contrast with the trees.

I love a good contrast. :)

[Shakespeare]

9. Eyvind Earle, the landscape artist for Disney's Sleeping Beauty, was inspired by those trees.

I think Monterey cypress may be my favorite trees, after giant redwoods.

[lost-in-nj]

10. Very nice

I love the colors and the contrasts...

Thanks for sharing!!!



:hi:


lost

[DS1]

11. dial-up IS hell

:shrug:

but this looks like a macro of some really killer weed

[Shakespeare]

18. If it were, I'd still be there with the fog and the seagulls!

I hear tell they do grow some sweet, sweet bud around Big Sur, though. :smoke:

[XemaSab]

12. Cool pictures!

VERY evocative of that part of the coast! :D

[XemaSab]

13. Gray Weather by Robinson Jeffers

It is true that, older than man and ages to outlast him, the Pacific surf
Still cheerfully pounds the worn granite drum;
But there’s no storm; and the birds are still, no song; no kind of excess;
Nothing that shines, nothing is dark;
There is neither joy nor grief nor a person, the sun’s tooth sheathed in cloud,
And life has no more desires than a stone.
The stormy conditions of time and change are all abrogated, the essential
Violences of survival, pleasure,
Love, wrath and pain, and the curious desire of knowing, all perfectly suspended.
In the cloudy light, in the timeless quietness,
One explores deeper than the nerves or heart of nature, the womb or soul,
To the bone, the careless white bone, the excellence.

[Shakespeare]

16. EXCELLENT poem!

thank you for posting that! :loveya:

[Haole Girl]

14. Great shots!

I especially love the blue/white contrast of the seagull close up!

Question: Is that tree still there.... the Lone Cypress?

That area is so beautiful & I miss it very much.

Thank you for posting these.

[Shakespeare]

17. I believe the lone cypress is at lovers' point near Carmel, a bit north of Point Lobos.

And it's still there. It IS very beautiful there!

[taterguy]

25. Do you mean this Lone Cypress?

Pic was taken Oct 2007 on a bike ride from Monterey to Point Lobo

[Haole Girl]

26. That's it, yes

I have an old necklace with that on it & I often wonder if the tree is still standing. Thanks! :hi:

[NV Whino]

19. What, no ground squirrels?

No otters? Naw, you weren't really at Point Lobos.

[Shakespeare]

20. Here ya go:

From a previous visit.

[NV Whino]

21. Oh, good one!

Okay, now I'll believe you were really there. I love Point Lobos even if the little ground squirrels steal you blind.

[puerco-bellies]

22. Great Pictures

I love Point Lobos. Ali and I spent a couple of days there last April with the kids and kayak. The kids tried to snorkel in Whaler's Cove but the water was too cold. We paddled out of the cove almost to the point but the seas were very rough, and Alison was still shaken up by our disastrous attempted surf-launch off Limekiln the day before. There are few stretches of Coast that can rival Point Lobos' beauty. Was Julian Peiffer State Park safe from the fires?

[Shakespeare]

23. Pfeiffer is (barely) safe from the fires, so far...

...but all the parks from a few miles south of Point Lobos to just past Limekiln are closed (as is that entire stretch of Highway 1). We were supposed to go camping at Andrew Molera last weekend, but they're using the campgrounds as staging areas for the firefighters, so we just spent the day at Point Lobos instead.

I'm so in love with that stretch of the coast. Nothing like it on earth.

[Tikki]

24. Exquisite......thank you for capturing it

for all to see....

This land and all land along the California Coast
is to be protected from the money grabbing
developers and oil and gas companies...forever.


Tikki

[bertha katzenengel]

27. Oh, my god.

Wow. Thank you for sharing these photos. You've captured something that makes me feel like I am there. I'm impressed.

Thank you again.