Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Wednesday: Hearst Castle, Elephant Seals


Today was a great day! Steph and I took a trip to San Simeon, to Hearst Castle. Hearst Castle is an amazing place, and every time we go to California, we try to go there at least once. This time we took the "Tour #4", which is a mostly outside tour of the gardens, the two pools, and ends in the wine cellar. This is probably the best tour we've been on, and since it's one of the less popular tours, instead of having a 30 person group, there were only about 12 or 15 people on our tour. It was really great. There's so much there that I would love to take time to shoot, but they whip you through there so fast, that it's difficult to get a lot of good shots. Fortunately, with the smaller group, I was albe to get some good ones.

After visiting Hearst Castle, we took a drive north on the 1 to view some local wildlife. This time of year, the Elephant Seals are on the shore, shedding their fur and looking quite lazy. These things are massive, and they look like they survive just to lay around and throw sand all over the place. They're pretty impressive beasts, and it's cool to see these animals live and in person instead of on Animal Planet.

Tomorrow we'll be heading to Montana de Oro, a local park that borders the Pacific and is pretty amazing. I should have some pretty amazing shots tomorrow.

Here's the rest of today's shots.

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