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California’s Central Coast is roughly defined as the area spanning from Point Mugu to Monterey Bay, ie. it begins northwest of Los Angeles and goes up into San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
The coastal areas include many, many State Beaches, lovely State Parks like Montaña de Oro, as well as the entirety of the rugged Big Sur coastline, to Carmel with Point Lobos, and Monterey with 17-Mile Drive and Asilomar State Beach.
Finally – something new for the photoblog! Two long exposure seascapes from Asilomar State Beach, photographed at the end of August during our Central Coast trip. And a bit of story too, of course.
After our photographic morning stroll through the woodland of Los Osos Oaks State Natural Reserve, we drove to Montaña de Oro State Park to hike Valencia Peak.
The third and last post from Los Osos Oaks State Natural Reserve combines the beautiful oaks with the other visually quite attractive element that I already mentioned in part two: Poison-oak!
At Los Osos Oaks State Natural Reserve, the giant oak creatures themselves are combined with very attractive other elements — one of them being Lace Lichen (Ramalina menziesii), which is also California’s state lichen (and deservedly so, of course).
I’m continuing with photographs from our Central Coast trip at the end of August today. After our Pecho Coast hike on the Point Buchon Trail we had a late lunch and rested for a bit before we went to the Los Osos Oaks State Natural Reserve. This is an ancient oak forest with gnarled trees up to 800 years old, and you haven’t really seen California’s Coast Live Oaks until you’ve seen these. They’re absolutely astonishing!
“If my mind doesn’t go out to disturb the noise, the noise won’t disturb me” (Ajahn Chah)