The weather service was reporting very large surf along the Pacific coast today, so I decided to head down towards Point Lobos and do some photography. It seems that I wasn’t the only one! Point Lobos was so packed that there was no parking left, and many cars were parked out on the highway. I changed plans, kept driving south, and ended up shooting along the Big Sur coast instead.
Back to (other) work for me on Monday, too. My trip yesterday was a fairly spontaneous one; I wasn’t planning on going down there until I heard the weather forecast, and that was probably already past 10:00 a.m., Tom.
The waves were, as Tom says, “big, but not huge.” Though even big can be impressive, as was the case a ways down the coast later in the afternoon.
Dan
When I got there about 10, both the Whalers cove and Sea Lion Point parking lots were full. I end up at Weston Beach. The waves were big, but not huge. The trail down to Sea Lion Point was open. When I left around 1, all of the parking lots were full and they were only letting cars in as people were leaving. Pictures to follow.
Oh my, and I almost went down to Point Lobos today myself. And I was even considering an alternative plan of driving down to Big Sur as well. If I had, I might have run into you! As it was, I just couldn’t quite get my inner engine going to get it together and go. I have been off work for over a week starting with December 24 and I have not gone anywhere. I’ve barely left the house. I was almost going to head to Bishop earlier this week for some sunrise photography of Mount Tom, but then ended up buying a set of new tires for both cars and that cost so much I decided to stay home. Then I thought I would do nearby day trips and I didn’t even get it together for that. Maybe it’s just as well. My batteries were just about drained and mentally, I really needed to recharge. Now the problem is that come Monday, I’ll be ready to get out and go somewhere except I have to go back to work. Aaarrrggghh. Oh well, at least I still have a job to go to which is more than a lot of people can say these days. But I still should have gone somewhere!