San Simeon

 Trish and I finished the Ojai Festival on Sunday afternoon and drove up the coast to San Simeon for the night.  That evening we got to watch the sun set over the Pacific Ocean.  At home, on Ocracoke, we drive down to watch the sun set over the Pamlico Sound many evenings.  Since the Sound is in the west side of our island, our home sunsets drop the sun into the water.  This looked much the same with awareness that friends at home had an almost identical view three hours earlier.

Over the Pacific.

The next day (yesterday) we were glad to be able to drive up the Pacific Coast Highway to Carmel and Monterey.  The Highway had been closed since heavy rains last week had brought down a rock slide, but it opened the day before our drive.  This is a lovely drive high above the Pacific waters crossing several historic bridges built from 1931 to 1933.  

On our way we stopped to walk down to the ocean to McVay Falls, a waterfall that lands on the beach.  This was a beautiful sight on the Big Sur Coast.

Right on the beach.