Lil Big Sur

[cjogo]

Just a drive home ...a little lean out the window >>

[Harald L]

There must be any reason that you show this wonderful picture with a tilted horizon. Please let me know. "Just a drive home ..." is just provoking;-)

Harald

[cjogo]

Sometimes you just don't get optimum results ..this is shot from the car window >> as you can expect = & = a little windy

[Harald L]

Sometimes you just don't get optimum results ..this is shot from the car window >> as you can expect = & = a little windy

Ok, ok, ok. But on some future occasion...

[AFairley]

Easy enough to fix in post (hint hint).  Captures the light very nicely. 

[cjogo]

OK OK --- I rarely ever shoot without a tripod --    You try a candid from your car ~~  in inclement weather>  and your chastised 

[Isaac]

That river mouth and beach consistently strike me as quite beautiful on the few times a year that I pass-by.

iirc the fence holds "Private Property" signs -- is there no beach access there at all?

[cjogo]

Issac  right at the mouth of the river you can follow the trail to the beach -- BUT  >>   yes  No Trespass signs sporadically on the fences.

[Mjollnir]

That river mouth and beach consistently strike me as quite beautiful on the few times a year that I pass-by.

iirc the fence holds "Private Property" signs -- is there no beach access there at all?

Yes, there is no trespassing over the fence to the beach, courtesy of the Uber-aholes at the El Sur Ranch.

They even posted guards there when I was in high school (I grew up in/around Big Sur) to stop folks from getting down to the beach at Little Sur River mouth.  There's a rock on the northern side (it's huge, you can't miss it) past which there are fantastic beaches.

We used to get down to them by parking above them, approaching Hurricane Point, but the new fence they've put up makes that really hard now.

They aren't exactly popular in the Sur, those El Sur Ranch folks.

[cjogo]

Good spot to grow up in     

[Isaac]

OT but...

What's the story with the step-risers on the Rocky Ridge and Soberanes Canyon Trails in Garrapata SP?

It looked to me like, at one time, most of the steep parts of those trails had wooden step risers held in-place by 18" iron rods. There also seemed to be a few remnants on the trails along the cliff-tops the other side of Highway 1.

Are they relics from CCC work?

[cjogo]

I think its CCC relics -- especially up along that side ...