The fog came in thick. We had planned to go to Big Sur, and took the chance that the fog would have cleared.
Nope. Our hope was to go the viewpoint just north of Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, where a big deal painter named Bill told us to go in order to paint his favorite view of any place on the coast around Monterey. We could see exactly nothing.
I asked Roomie if she knew what was special about it, and she said it is the only place in California (or the west coast? or the world??) where a waterfall hits the ocean.
Move on, folks. Nothing to see here.
We were tired, had a lot of things scheduled that day including the evening, and didn’t want to hoof it down the trail lugging out painting gear, risk it looking too foggy, only to have 2 hours before we had to head back (we were maybe 1-1/2 hours from Asilomar).
We leaned over a bridge in the park to look at the stream which becomes the waterfall.
These are sequoia sempervirens, not our sequoias, which are sequoia gigantea.
Painting-wise, it was a disappointing day. No bridge, no Big Sur view, only one painting. But Roomie and I enjoyed each other’s company and enjoyed the drive. The last time I was on that road was on foot, in April of 2010. A friend and I walked the Big Sur 21-Miler. It was awesome! (The photos look a little weird in that post because WordPress is like every other tech platform, always updating, which we all know is a euphemism for “complication”.)
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Hi, Jana — Really enjoying the latest trip info, as always. Google on McWay Falls to see what you missed, thanks to the fog. McWay really is a marvelous view Hope you’ll get to see it in the sunshine some day. 🙂
Thank you, Laurie! No one mentioned the name of the falls, so I appreciate the info.