Southern California

Hello again Everyone.  We have traveled several days without internet connection, and here we are in Morro Bay, just north of San Luis Obispo on the Californian coast.  Today is a "rest day" or catch up - mostly spent at the local laundromat and here in the library, catching up with people via the internet.  Tomorrow we drive to Los Angeles.  After a day at Disneyland, we will fly to London and then to Edinburgh in Scotland.

The past few days have included the following:

We traveled through an area called "The Avenue of the Giants."  The giants are the magnificent redwood trees of Northern California.  We stopped in several places and even saw a tree where cars could drive through the trunk of the tree.  Our Motor Home was too big to fit.  Here Mrs McLeay and I try to reach around a tree.  It was too big!!

This was very interesting to me.  This construction has been built to protect the road from huge rocks that fall down onto it.  It was very impressive driving through it.

I am very pleased with this photo.  I took it after we had crossed the bridge, and while still travelling along at about 60 km per hour.  I could not get a good look back, so put the camera out the window and just clicked the camera and this is the photo I got!  This bridge is on the coast south of Monterrey and is one of many very impressive bridges on the winding road.

All along the coast we were amazed to see snow covered rocks in the ocean like this one.

(It wasn't really snow . . .  Can you guess what it is?)

This beach is covered with hundreds of Elephant Seals.  There are several thousand that come here in April and May.  They stay for about 4 to 6 weeks and do not eat during that time.  They malt their hairy skin and have a new skin to begin the Summer with.

This is the huge rock off the coast of Morro Bay where we are currently staying.  Morro Bay is just north of San Luis Obispo, about four hours driving up the coast from Los Angeles.