The Monterey Coast, 1980

Last light on the coast

shinndierock

Rise and brine! It’s king tides day! 👑🌊

Rocks of Monterey

Monterey Coast, CA

The shore, the shore.

(Another one of the watercolor illustrations I contributed to Serpentine, a lovely collection of poems by Tara K. Shepersky which will be funding on Kickstarter for the next two weeks. Give it a look.)

Seal Island is completely covered by seals and sea lions. Maybe a few birds as well. You can hear the seals from the mainland.

Pebble Beach, California

Explore the area:

Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park Vista Point, CA (No. 2)

The drive along Highway 1 has been described as "one of the best drives on Earth", and is considered one of the top 10 motorcycle rides in the United States. Highway 1 was named the most popular drive in California in 2014 by the American Automobile Association. Condé Nast Traveler named State Route 1 through Big Sur one of the top 10 world-famous streets, comparable to Broadway in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Most of the nearly 7 million tourists who currently visit Big Sur each year never leave Highway 1, because the adjacent Santa Lucia Range is one of the largest roadless coastal areas in the entire United States; Highway 1 and the Nacimiento-Fergusson Road offer the only paved access into and out of the region. In January 2021, the Nacimiento-Fergusson Road was washed out due to the impacts of the Dolan Fire and closed, cutting off the only alternative route out of the area. It is not expected to reopen until December 2023.

The beauty of the scenery along the narrow, two-lane road attracts enormous crowds during summer vacation periods and holiday weekends, and traffic is frequently slow. Visitors have reported to the California Highway Patrol hours-long stop-and-go traffic from Rocky Creek Bridge to Rio Road in Carmel during the Memorial Day weekend. The highway winds along the western flank of the mountains mostly within sight of the Pacific Ocean, varying from near sea level up to a 1,000-foot (300 m) sheer drop to the water. Most of the highway is extremely narrow, with tight curves, steep shoulders and blind turns. The route offers few or no passing lanes and, along some stretches, very few pullouts. The sides are occasionally so steep that the shoulders are virtually non-existent.

Source: Wikipedia

sand city, ca | aug 2023

Fog and Sun, Sea and Stone The Monterey Coast, 1980

Magnificent Big Sur, Highway 1 and Bixby Bride in the distance.

bixby bridge.

big sur.  monterey county, ca.

my instant gram.

The Central California Coast

This location in California near Monterey/Pacific Grove is (to the best of my knowledge) permanently fenced off to the public to allow these harbor seals and their pups a safe and secure place to lounge.

This stretch of the California coast is replete with views and vistas for landscape/nature photographers. This shot is just a middle of the day kinda image, but if you caught this scene with the right kind of sunset light and cloud interest, you could really have something.

Let's go exploring.

From August, 2022

Lone Tree, California

Edward Weston, Monterey Coast, 1932,

Gelatin silver print, mounted on board,

Sheet: 7¼ x 9½ in (18.4 x 24.1 cm).