Seeing More of Big Sur and River Nymphs

Trip Start Oct 08, 1980
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Trip End Nov 06, 1980


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Wednesday, October 15, 1980

  I spent the morning painting a picture of the coast looking south from where I was parked.  Then I headed south, getting short of money and was going to see some more of the coast as I started back.  I met a hitchhiker was I was getting ready to leave and took him to Andrew Molera State Park where he was going to camp.  khe was familiar with the area and he told me about a warm springs that was a few miles above the campground where people would get naked and spend the night in the spring,  it creating enough wamth in the growing chillier nights, and that way you didn't need to pack in a tent and stuff.
  After letting him off I parked next to the entrance to Pfeiffer-Big Sur State Park,  a real picturesque area that I thought would be a good area to do a painting but didn't have enough time then.  I returned to Andrew Molera State Park to take a hike to the beach, which was at some distance from the road there.  I took my soap and towel hoping to take a bath in the river.  As I approached the beach river area I saw two ladies also hiking in the area and figured my bath was off.  I walked on further to the ocean and when I looked around back up the river the two ladies were buck naked and going in for a swim themselves.  So I refigured and got naked and went in to my section of the moving bath water, somewhat chilly but I was use to that.  I always am careful when I wash up in natural settings because in our society a naked woman in public is looked upon as an exhibitionist at the worst, but a naked man is considered a pervert and is usually arrested.  Doesn't make sense but if a policeman had seen us he would have probably told the women to get dressed and taken me to jail.
  Anyway after I walked back to the van I moved up the road a little to a nice spot and stopped for the night.
34 miles for the day  Photos and paintings available here  http://artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=42727  and my personal website with contact information http://home.earthlink.net/~greenvanartusa/index.html
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