Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Day 186 - 5th December, Kirk Creek - Elephant Seal Rookery - San Simeon State Park, 43.23 miles

Den morskych vydier. Nasli sme ich kusok za Kirk Creekom. Naraz som mal pocit, ze musime zastavit, tak sme zastavili a ja som zacal dalekohladom prehladavat more chaluh pod nami. A naozaj po chvili sme ich nasli, bolo ich asi devet, vyvalovali sa na vlnach, chvilami sa hrali alebo omotane/zakotvene v chaluhach spali. Pozorovali sme ich asi hodinu. Zvysok dna sa klukatime po utesoch, chvilu sme riesili problem s vodou, ale nakoniec sme ju dostali v jednej z restauracii co tu su. Aj ked skoro nam ju nedali, ze vraj len pre zakaznikov... Navecer uz opustame povestne utesy Big Sur-u, po paradnom zjazde sa dostavame na roviny, lietaju tu duchovia, miestny druh kani, cele biele a sede a s uhrancivym pohladom. Prichadzame do Elephant Seal Rookery (neviem najst slovensky nazov), obrovske samce sa tu navzajom plieskaju tlamami a vydavaju rucivo-trubive zvuky. Zaroven su strasne vtipní Prespavame v San Simeon State Park.

Today we hit the road quite early in the morning. It was nearly freezing in the shade, but on the sun the temperature was pleasant. We were in the area with Sea Otters, but we still haven't seen any. Looking on the kelp (or seaweed?) "fields", suddenly I had feeling that here we have to find some of them. So we stopped and really after a while I found small group of nine. They were playing, chasing each other or sleeping on the water wrapped in the kelps. After one hour suddenly they disappeared, so we continued on the windy road with the cliffs beneath. We nearly run off the drinking water (the day was very hot finally), but soon enough there was a restaurant and we could refill our bottles. Well, we nearly didn't get any, because the water was only for customers. An another sign that we are entering the desert. Today we left Big Sur, the long and amazing downhill ride was nice farewell with this gorgeous area. In the evening we passed near by Elephant Seals Rookery, that was also interesting experience to see all those huge males. For the night we stayed in San Simeon State Park.

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