Interlude

Today was so perfect that it seemed useless to try taking pictures. We drove up the coast to Rancho del Oso, where the visitor center is set up a hill from the coast. It wasn't just the visual beauty of the wide blue sky, the pine trees, the hillside. It was also the sound of the wind and the ocean beyond the trees, the cool breeze, the fresh air. It was the feeling of vastness and peace. We took a short nature walk, then spent some time on the beach, then had lunch in the courtyard of the visitor's center, and finished with a brief scavenger hunt. Then we drove back through the beautiful day, along the windswept ocean.