Marine Reserve at Moss Beach

Today's hike helped me realize that I become a coastal creature. Just 10 days ago we were touring the dry, rocky landscape of the Arizona and Utah High SW. It was a fascinating trip through high plateaus and steep canyons with views changing every hour, . Today, we found a solitude of the warm and sunny beach, and it felt like home.

The beach was all ours, I have seen only two more
people over the entire 1.5 hr walk.

It was a good day to capture colors of the marine vegetation.

I believe that remote ocean beaches are still as natural and rough as they used to be in the past, much more than the preserved land. Here, we have seen seals resting at the rocks, and turkey vultures feeding on a seal carcass.

The beach has also rotting carcasses of long forgotten cars, which probably fell down from the cliff. Did anyone played "Chicken Race" here, like James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause".

Time to go back.