The Big Sur in 1982!
The Big Sur in 1982!
I fished out my old holiday snaps from 1982 when my brother and I did a fly-drive around the South Western States. I mentioned Highway 1 in another thread but rather than hijack Pippa's lovely post I thought I'd do a separate one. Unfortunately the years have not been good for my prints and the negatives have long disappeared. This is about the best I can do after a fair degree of digital reworking. It is the view from Highway 1 looking North along the Coastal range bordering the Pacific Ocean. I just noticed that it isn't quite level, so if you could just lean a bit to the right to correct your viewpoint it'll help.
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(Terry Pratchett 1948-2015)
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The Big Sur in 1982!
Oh that's beautiful, Eccles! It looks like a painting!
I must look tomorrow to see how close that is to the train journey I took up the same coast. It ran parallel to a road for a long time.
But i'm just in from London, so will do it tomorrow.
I must look tomorrow to see how close that is to the train journey I took up the same coast. It ran parallel to a road for a long time.
But i'm just in from London, so will do it tomorrow.
"I used to be a picture in a storybook. Then I escaped." - Hades, The Burnt City
The Big Sur in 1982!
There's not much there.
The Big Sur in 1982!
True, just mountains that climb into the clouds and the Pacific Ocean.
Hope you had a good time, Merry.
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
(Terry Pratchett 1948-2015)
(Terry Pratchett 1948-2015)
The Big Sur in 1982!
I did, thank you , Eccles.
I looked on Google to see if the Coast Starlight ran alongside that road, and I think it must have done, as we took the leg between LA and SF one year and had views much like your photo. I can't actually see the train tracks on the overhead, but I was struck by how the ocean came out on this - it looks like a huge, crumpled, deep blue duvet! It made me feel rather
looking at that and thinking how disturbed those mighty forces are in all that water!
True, just mountains that climb into the clouds and the Pacific Ocean.
I looked on Google to see if the Coast Starlight ran alongside that road, and I think it must have done, as we took the leg between LA and SF one year and had views much like your photo. I can't actually see the train tracks on the overhead, but I was struck by how the ocean came out on this - it looks like a huge, crumpled, deep blue duvet! It made me feel rather
looking at that and thinking how disturbed those mighty forces are in all that water! "I used to be a picture in a storybook. Then I escaped." - Hades, The Burnt City
The Big Sur in 1982!
The geology in that area is pretty tortured isn't it. You've got the Rockies in the midwest, then go west a bit and you have the Sierra Nevadas then west a bit more and you get the Coastal Range which I presume are still rising. The coastal bit in California is the Diablo Range where the highest mountain is Mount St Benito (5200 feet). Higher than Ben Nevis!
One photo that I failed to get was that of Bixby Bridge. I'm sure I was looking out for it but we obviously drove over it on autopilot without realising we'd missed the best photo opportunity of the day. I think it must have been because we were travelling north and would have had to look back to see the iconic views.
https://www.sederquist.com/assets/bixby ... sunset.jpg
One photo that I failed to get was that of Bixby Bridge. I'm sure I was looking out for it but we obviously drove over it on autopilot without realising we'd missed the best photo opportunity of the day. I think it must have been because we were travelling north and would have had to look back to see the iconic views.
https://www.sederquist.com/assets/bixby ... sunset.jpg
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
(Terry Pratchett 1948-2015)
(Terry Pratchett 1948-2015)