Thousands of noisy sea lions at Monterey

View from the hot tub at Pigeon Point hostel; Harbour seals on the rocks below

And whales in the distance, if your eyes are good enough 😉

Pigeon Point lighthouse, wearing scaffolding in the morning sun 😊

Elephant seals - so cool to watch them mucking around / arguing at pretty close range

Stopped for a cuppa in the sunshine; the pumpkin pie was delicious 😋

We love coastal redwoods: Sequoia sempivirens

Time to unpack and move out of the car after ~3 weeks ☺️

Coast and redwoods again, with Molly 🤩

26–27 Nov 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

We'd wanted to go to Sequoia National Park to see the largest trees in the world, but a winter storm came by... So we went to the Pinnacles (see previous post), coast & forests instead.

It was awesome to see elephant seals 🤩. They were almost hunted to extinction for their blubber, but now recovering. And fun to see/hear thousands of sea lions, a few harbour seals, and some cute sea otters. And so many birds!

We didn't like the tourist crowds at Monterey, nor eating expensive fish and chips in the rain 😔. But Pigeon Point and Año Nuevo State Park were just lovely, and the weather improved 😄 . While the redwood forest was not as impressive as further north, it was still beautiful, and the crowds were mostly just around the carpark 😂.Baca lagi

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