Elephant Seals

Chewing up the road and spitting out the miles

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July 22nd 2008
Highway One Another whirlwind pack, breakfast and departure, and we left Monterey to head off down Highway 1 towards Santa Barbara. The first area we hit was Big Sur derived from the Spanish name El Pais Grande del Sur (the big country to the South). The coastline was rocky, lined with trees and the sea still highly populated with Kelp. We stopped several times to take in the drama ... read more

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