"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
-John Muir
Kelp Forest at The Monterey Bay Aquarium
"The sea is as near as we come to another world."
–Anne Stevenson
Monterey Bay
Long exposure shot
Monterey Bay
Long exposure shot in black and white
Monterey Bay
Long exposure shot
The 17-Mile Drive
Panoramic View
Sunset Point on the 17-Mile Drive
During the day!
The Lone Cypress
Framed by Monterey Cypress trees
The Lone Cypress
Panoramic View
The Lone Cypress
The Lone Cypress
"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree."
-Joyce Kilmer
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Dramatic sunset in Carmel
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Long exposure waves
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Long exposure shot
Carmel-by-the-Sea
At sunset
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Bixby Bridge
Big Sur
"Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday." - Zora Neale Hursto