Big Sur Coastline Near Soberanes Creek, Spring. California Coast. May 13, 2011. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A sunny spring morning along the Big Sur Coast at Soberanes Creek, with fog above the coastal mountains.
This is a spot that is probably familiar to many who have driven down this section of the Big Sur coastline south of Monterey and Carmel, California. To the right, and out of the photograph, is Soberanes Canyon which ascends steeply toward the ridges above Pacific Ocean. A creek flows down the canyon, underneath the coast highway, and then into the ocean.
The foreground bluff looks inviting with its green color and spring flowers. However, I picked up one of the worst cases of poison oak I’ve had on one occasion when I walked across this meadow to photograph the sea stacks and coastline at dusk!
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Rosemary, I’ve been pretty lucky when it comes to ticks – despite spending a ton of time in the outdoors of central and northern California I have never (knock on wood!) picked up a tick. Poison oak, though, is quite a different story! I’ve lived around it for years, so I became aware of it early on in the hills of inland California, but for some reason it took me a long time to finally understand now much of it there is along the coastline!
Yes, the posion oak and ticks are fierce in the coastal chapparal. You had a pretty morning there, Dan.