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We drove from Monterey to San Simeon taking in 17 Mile Drive, Pebble Beach, Bixby Bridge (again), Big Sur, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park Vista Point and Big Creek Bridge. We saw lots of Californian Condors and other wildlife. We finished the day with a sunset from the beach and some shots of the moon.
17 Mile Drive, 1st stop. 
The view at Shepherds Knoll, early morning mist obscuring everything. 
Morning mist! 
The beach at Asilomar State Marine Reserve (17 Mile Drive). 
Stone balancing area 
Cormorants resting on the rocks at Restless Sea (No 4 on the 17 Mile Drive) 
Close up of the Cormorants resting on the rocks at Restless Sea (No 4 on the 17 Mile Drive) 
17 Mile Drive stop No 4, The Restless Sea. Named due to the turbulant section of coast line in Pebble Beach with waves crashing into each other due to submerged rocks. 
Pelican formation flying over the sea. 
Cormorants flying in formation. 
Windswept trees on the coast at Point Joe (17 Mile Drive stop no 5) 
Pelicans resting at Bird Rock (17 Mile Drive stop no 7) 
Ground Squirrel in the rocks (17 Mile Drive) 
Ground Squirrel in the rocks (17 Mile Drive) 
The coast at Fan Shell Beach Overlook (17 Mile Drive stop no 9) 
Wind Swept Monterey Cypress trees 
Monterey Cypress trees at Crocker Grove (17 Mile Drive Stop No 11) 
Hollow Monterey Cypress Tree 
The Lone Cypress is a Monterey cypress tree in Pebble Beach, California. Standing on a granite hillside off the 17-Mile Drive (stop no 12). A drawing of the tree was registered as Pebble Beach Company’s trademark in 1919. The company said the trademark protected not only the logo but also the tree itself. 
The lone cypress. The left branch was broken off during a storm earlier in 2019 
Ghost Tress at Pescadero Point (17 Mile Drive stop No 13). These are the sun bleached remains of dead Monterey cypress trees. 
Very busy at the Pebble Beach visitor centre (17 Mile Drive stop no 15) 
Pebble Beach Visitor Centre 
Road works causing traffic queues across the Bixby Bridge 
Bixby Creek Bridge, built in 1932. 
The Bixby Creek Bridge showing how it crurves round to join the other side. 
In the road works and driving on the wrong side of the road. Mist still over the hills at 13:40 
The mist starting to clear giving some blue sky. 
Point Sur Lighthouse on top of the rock 
Interesting cloud pattern over the mountains on PCHW 1 at Big Sur. 
Ford Mustang. Seemed to be the car of choice to travel on the Pacific Coast Hiway. 
A valley down to the sea near the Nepentnthe Cafe (PCHW 1) 
A pair of California Condors soaring over the sea 
Typical coastline at Big Sur (PCHW 1) 
Julia Pfeiffer Burns Sate Park Vista Point. Paving to celebrate the return of the Californian Condor. We saw several soring over the cliffs nearby. 
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay. 
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay 
Coast line from the Julia Pfeiffer State Park Vista Point 
Big Creek Bridge (PCHW 1) 
California Condor with a yellow no 8 on its wing. Google provided this description – ‘ #208, a female hatched in 1999 at the LA Zoo’. 
Sunset 
Half Moon 
Reflected moonlight
JL Photos 