Central Coast Camping Trip

We took an extended weekend and went camping for four days. We had a nice time, and now Lee and I are ready for a long, long nap. Here are some highlights.

Pismo Beach is famous for its Monarch Butterfiles which come spend part of the year in a grove of trees next to the State Park. When you look up you see them everywhere. The trailer worked like a champ. Thanks to our generator, we had no battery woes, and a nice cozy heater, which led to bathtime in the sink! Is it me or does he look like a giant baby in a tiny sink?

Grayson was a great "help" in the trailer. He helped take everything out of the cupboards, several times.
Carissa and Derek loved playing trailer- and so did we!!

On the dunes right behind the campground. What could be more fun than rolling down sand dunes?

And then eating the sand?
It was starting to get a little chilly as the sun went down, but that didn't stop all three from frolicking in the ocean to pick up the purple sand dollars.

This is at Piedras Blancas, north of San Simeon (Hearst Castle..."Rosebud!"...) where the Elephant seals come to mate. The wind nearly blew us off the trail, but we went down a half mile or so to get a closer look at these gigantic creatures. Lee offered me $100 to run down and poke one. I did not take that offer.
ON our way back down the coast we stopped at this point where Lee and I took an identical picture on our Honeymoon. (Please note Derek's pose)

Here is Derek heading out on the Bluff Trail at Montana De Oro, just south of Morro Bay. I do believe he cannot take a picture without posing. We loved the tide pools down a little ways off the Bluff Trail. Lots of fun stuff!

Grayson really loved the rocks. Apparently they tasted good, or felt nice in his mouth, because he ate handfulls.

Did I mention that bringing the DVD player was a great move??

This is the Pier at Pismo Beach, where they were holding yet another surfing contest. (They've had one all three times we've been there.) The kids were mesmerized watching the surfers, and I wondered, again, why I have not taken that sport up.