Kirk Creek Campground at Big Sur

Kirk  Creek Campground on Highway 1 near Big Sur

The  drive on Highway 1 is a 100 mile event with  thrilling 100 foot drop-offs down to the ocean.  This is the third time we have made this drive and I personally would like to retire from this activity while I am still alive!  Pete seems to be fearless and thinks I am a wimp! 


We stopped at Ragged Point for lunch and a little walk overlooking the ocean.  Beautiful to take in while one has both feet on the ground!

Kirk Creek campground is extremely  popular and needs to be  booked exactly at 8am 6 months before you want to arrive.  It is spectacular and after 3 years of trying, Pete was able to get the best site overlooking the ocean.  We stayed there a week hiking, and enjoying the scenery.

Highway 1 is subject to rock and mud slides and seems to be closed yearly at one time or another.
The weather was just perfect for our week there!  Met a lot of wonderful people!

Campsite flowers!

Gifted raccoons are also having a great time at Kirk Creek campground.  They have managed to open car doors to get food!  If a car window in rolled down a little, mamma raccoon sends the babies in through the window to bring out food!  One man told us a raccoon opened 4 zippers to get into his tent!  So...we locked our doors!


Rabbits were everywhere!  They were all small size but happily chomping away.  Cute!

View from our campsite # 22

We hiked down to the beach which has very large rocks,and tide pools.  Pete ventured out and found 16 Blue Sea Anemones.  It is a neat place!

We also hiked up the mountain across the highway and the view was great.  My new hip and I made it about 1/2 mile while Pete and Bailey went about a mile.  Pete did this about 7 times just for the exercise! 

Our RV is at the top under the large tree!  View from the trail

Pete was also a great camper making ham and eggs in the morning and campfires at night!

Very Happy Memories with beautiful sunsets at our campsite # 22.  This will probably be our last camping on this trip and we are so fortunate to have it end in such a beautiful place!

Monterrey Cannery Row Area

We love this restaurant in Cannery Row--ate here two years ago!  Love the bird on top of the statue in the square on Cannery Row!

We were told there was a beach that was a great place to look for "glass rocks" in Monterrey.

We were instructed to follow the trail behind the Costco, go under the highway and go left at the "big rock"!  We wandered around and finally found someone who knew where to go.  They told us we weren't going to find much today with tide and winter season so she pulled out a plastic bag with the results of their efforts and gave them to us for our grand children. 

Glass rocks are old broken glass bottles from an old dump site that have been smoothed out by years of wave action.

Here are what they found this day. 

Glass rocks

On the way to the beach we walked over these beautiful sand dunes and enjoyed the parasailing!