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Farthest Point South.
Oct. 4th, 2008 10:50 pmWe hemmed and hawed this morning, looked at the rain, and decided to try for the morning walking tour of Big Sur Light Station. Best decision ever.
Big Sur rock doesn't have a provable geological reason to be there, just some theories. But there it juts. If it weren't connected to the mainland it would beat out Haystack Rock as the biggest free standing monolith.
Cool Light station! Most of the original structures were built out of the local sandstone. Later buildings were built out of wood. The newest building, a replica of the original water tower, was actually built out of special composites. That's because it was built by AT&T. They wanted a cell tower on the rock and were given permission as long as they could hide it. Since wood would block their signal... Success! We never knew it was there.
We pulled out of the parking lot at 2 and turned right, away from our home base and further down highway one. oooOOOOOoooo! We stopped at a waterfall that falls from a cliff onto the sandy beach. The overlook was closed as was the park. That didn't stop the 15 or 20 carloads of people from parking along side the road and hopping the fence. Well worth it.
Many of the parks were closed because of the horrendous fires they had here. There are some that are still burning, fire crews all over. However no one is franticly fighting fires. There are just some obvious hot spots still smoldering.
We left the falls and, again, turned right. We drove waaaay father then we had originally planned, all the way down to Piedras Blancas Light Station. It was closed of course. At 5 PM everything would be closed. Mostly we drove there as an excuse to travel highway one. the lighthouse was just a bonus. A big bonus.
Got back to our hotel in the dark. Shortbread just now turned out the light to go to sleep.
Big Sur rock doesn't have a provable geological reason to be there, just some theories. But there it juts. If it weren't connected to the mainland it would beat out Haystack Rock as the biggest free standing monolith.
Cool Light station! Most of the original structures were built out of the local sandstone. Later buildings were built out of wood. The newest building, a replica of the original water tower, was actually built out of special composites. That's because it was built by AT&T. They wanted a cell tower on the rock and were given permission as long as they could hide it. Since wood would block their signal... Success! We never knew it was there.
We pulled out of the parking lot at 2 and turned right, away from our home base and further down highway one. oooOOOOOoooo! We stopped at a waterfall that falls from a cliff onto the sandy beach. The overlook was closed as was the park. That didn't stop the 15 or 20 carloads of people from parking along side the road and hopping the fence. Well worth it.
Many of the parks were closed because of the horrendous fires they had here. There are some that are still burning, fire crews all over. However no one is franticly fighting fires. There are just some obvious hot spots still smoldering.
We left the falls and, again, turned right. We drove waaaay father then we had originally planned, all the way down to Piedras Blancas Light Station. It was closed of course. At 5 PM everything would be closed. Mostly we drove there as an excuse to travel highway one. the lighthouse was just a bonus. A big bonus.
Got back to our hotel in the dark. Shortbread just now turned out the light to go to sleep.
