Trip up the California Central Coast

Picking blueberries on the way to Cambria

(on hwy 101,  30 minutes north of Santa Barbara)

Eating blueberries in Cambria

Beach at San Simeon

(great drift wood and rocks to collect)

Moonstone Beach tide pools at Cambria

Sea Otter looking for dinner

(we watched this little guy break open shells on his stomach while lying on his back)

Walking the Estero Bluffs State Park

just north of Cayucos

(355 acres of grasslands and beach to ourselves)

Finding a way down to the beach at Estero Bluffs

Beach at Estero Bluffs

Byron hanging onto a rock at the

beach at Estero Bluffs

The pier at Avila

(we like to get up early before the crowds show up)

Sage

18 inches of winter and spring rain has been good for the Cleveland Sage in my garden. It's a relative of the native Black and Purple Sages.