Pacific Coast Highway

San Francisco, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, California April 2013 – Click here to see the entire collection. If you like this photo, leave a comment or use the Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest buttons below. Thanks!

napping Sea lions

The main attraction at Fisherman’s Wharf: noisy, smelly Sea Lions lounge around without a care in the world… enjoying the sun, surf and photographers’ attention. San Francisco, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, California April 2013 – Click here to see the entire collection. If you like this photo, leave a comment or use the Facebook, Twitter […]

shamrock carpet

Muir Woods is home to some of the tallest trees in the world. Some are over 1,000 years old.  Most people crane their necks to see the coastal Redwood trees and don’t notice the beautiful carpet of shamrocks, just three inches high and covering the forest floor.  The pictured ground cover is technically redwood sorrel, […]

waves at sunset

San Francisco, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, California April 2013 – Click here to see the entire collection. If you like this photo, leave a comment or use the Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest buttons below. Thanks!

purple wildflowers

the coast’s cliffs and grassy meadows are filled with wildflowers of every color in the Spring. San Francisco, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, California April 2013 – Click here to see the entire collection. If you like this photo, leave a comment or use the Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest buttons below. Thanks!

Cypress

Native to the central coast of California, Monterey Cypress have become a regional icon. This one has survived erosion and lightning for almost 300 years. San Francisco, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, California April 2013 – Click here to see the entire collection. If you like this photo, leave a comment or use the Facebook, Twitter […]

Pacific Coastline

Fair sunny days and occasional winter rains mixed with the salty spray of the ocean give the California coastline a wide mix of vegetation. San Francisco, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, California April 2013 – Click here to see the entire collection. If you like this photo, leave a comment or use the Facebook, Twitter and […]

Bird Island

Hundreds of Brandt’s Cormorants nest on this island which is out of reach of man due to cliffs and sea surges.  The seabirds nest along the Pacific Ocean and dive into the water, chasing fish as deep as 40 feet below the surface at feeding time. San Francisco, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, California April 2013 […]

Whaler’s Wheels

Left behind by Chinese fishermen in the 1850s who built a whalers’ cabin atop a cliff, Point Lobos State Reserve. San Francisco, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, California April 2013 – Click here to see the entire collection.

lovebirds

just testing my portrait skills on the beach in front of my hotel before shipping off to Big Sur for the day.  San Francisco, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, California April 2013 – Click here to see the entire collection.