Piedras Blancas San Simeon

The next morning, I went out to explore the area a bit. There is a very attractive creekside gardens and patio behind the motel which would be a lovely place to spend a morning/afternoon reading, having coffee or wine, listening to and admiring the birds, flowers, bushes in pastoral pleasure.









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It rained today. I guess we've been lucky so far with the weather but I think the rain is supposed to be following us south to L.A. over the next two days :(. Anyways, we started the day with a huge breakfast. Fry up and stack of pancakes. Yum! Then we hit the road and headed south. We spent about 20 mins looking for a way to turn on the back …

... roads turned into wider roads and straightened out.  We were only 10 miles from our final destination San Simeon, when we saw the Point Piedras Blancas and Light Station.  We decided to spend the last few moments of daylight on this beautiful ...

... a shortish distance towards Hearst Castle.   We were a little early for our tour, so thought we would stop at Point Piedras Blancas  - California's largest elephant seal colony.  This is not a Kelly Tarltons - it is just a matter of ...

... . Wanting to watch the sun set we pulled in to a 'vista point' and stumbled across the elephant seal colony that lives at Piedras Blancas. It was a magical experience, the sun sinking into the western ocean, the seals just a few feet below us on the ...

... a comfortable and elegant appeal.  It is a primary destination for weddings, business functions and family reunions.  At Point Piedras Blancas, there's a colony of 15,000 elephant seals.  They laze around on the beaches, grunt, fight and ...

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