Monterey - Report 4: Big Sur

After a relaxed Friday morning, we left in early afternoon for Big Sur. South of Carmel is The Carmel Highlands area -- great rocky-coastal scenes and houses in awesome locations. Lots of different shades of blue where sea meets shore.

At this site, all you can see is the driveway leading to a house on this promontory, but you know it's nice. We need to find someone to tell us where someone famous with a name we know lives, or has their summer cottage. I've suggested to Susie that she hook up with a real estate agent and pretend she's in the market for one of these places -- saw quite a few For Sale signs. Somehow I don't think the housing slump has sagged very much here -- give or take a few megabucks.

All this brings to mind our friends the Eatons' cabin overlooking Lake Herron in NM. Nothing like living on the water.

Landscaping gets your attention, too, like this blooming yard.

We stopped for lunch at Rocky Point which our friends, the Goods -- our Good friends -- had alerted us to. Beautiful day. Even saw a couple of whales from here.

For some reason I identify Big Sur with Kim Novak. Here's a link to a 1964 spread on her hideaway there. I couldn't find any pictures of her and her house to copy, so you'll have to follow the link -- it's pretty neat.

Novak was in Hitchcock's film, Vertigo, filmed in part in Big Sur, including scenes at this bridge.

And here's the coast below the bridge.

Along the coast there are a couple of places where the land levels out and there is ranching. My first California barn picture:

On the way back, caught this scene:

Well, we've been away from home for a month now. When we got back to Marina from our Big Sur drive and turned up the road to the RV park, Susie said, "We're home," so I guess we're getting used to it -- home is where the Tuzigoot is!

Still mild this evening, so we walked down to the beach to catch the sunset.

Cheers,

Susie and Rob