August 28, 2013
Cooler temperatures this
morning, so we put the bikes on the back of the truck and drove down to Pismo
Beach
to look for a place to ride. We didn’t find exactly what we were looking
for, but picked out a neighborhood park that had some bike paths. So, we rode
around the park and the neighborhood for about an hour. The park was up on a
bluff overlooking the ocean. Just below the bluff was a seal,
laying on a rock,
soaking up what little sun there was.
From Pismo Beach, we drove
up to Morro Bay. It was so foggy up there we could only see the bottom part of
the rock. As we cut through a parking lot where there were some guys cleaning
fish and throwing the scraps in a dumpster. Along with the standard Sea Gulls
fighting over the scraps were some young Pelicans.
Pelicans are fairly graceful
in the air and on the water, but on land they are clumsy. Watching these young
birds trying to balance on the edges of the dumpster, rocking back and forth
with wings flapping was hilarious!!
When we got back to the
base we stopped to see their little flight museum. Most of these specimens were
in pretty rough shape.
As we were driving back to the campground we passed a
small herd of Mule Deer (that’s my uneducated guess), they were looking a little
scrawny,
there isn’t much fresh grass growing wild in southern California.
The
state has been suffering from a long term drought, which is also why it is so
tough to stop a fire once it has started.
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