Day 5: The group becomes 5!

Today was even more beautiful than the last! With a lot more hills to climb, but the scenery was beautiful, and we had Fred and Aria join us!

Tuesday night I told Mike, let’s get out of bed early and get rolling! Well, we were on our way there, but needed to do our morning yoga routine. Right next to the campsite was a stream with a beautiful bridge across it, perfect for yoga class. Brittany started the session with the entire camp. Fred, Aria, Brettt (apparently his name has 3 ts) and David all joined! We had a lovely 20 minute session, but got a lot of laughs from people crossing the bridge.

Yoga was quickly followed by breakfast. Breakfast was in the same lodge where we had dinner. David, Brettt, Fred, and Aria all joined us! Fred told us about his plans to move to Hawaii after this trip, which was super interesting.

By the time breakfast was done and we were actually on the road it was 11:30. So much for an early morning rollout. But there were lots of laughs and yoga which made it all worth it.

The biking along the road in big Sur is absolutely stunning. I don’t have much to say about except the uphills are pretty gradual and the downhills are a blast. Fred and Aria biked with us for the day, while David and Brettt did their own thing but kept running into us along the way.

We all ended up at the same campground! Kirk Creek, a US Forest Service campground right on a cliff above the ocean. It’s absolutely beautiful. Mike, Brittany, and I walked down to the ocean to cook dinner and enjoy the sunset. Our dinner was less than spectacular, consisting of a somewhat old salad and Annie’s Mac and Cheese, but the sunset more than made up for it. The sky turned a dark orange all along the horizon. And the waves were exploding on the rocks 20 feet below where we were cooking. All of a sudden Mike yells, “Look! A whale!”. All day we had been seeing spurts of water shoot up in the air, there must have been a pod of whales out there, or maybe a few pods. This time however, we could see either the tail of the whale, or the whole whale jump out of the water. It was pretty fair away, but was as big as a boat. Very cool to see! We saw that a few more times, framed by tall rocks on either side, the glowing red sky behind, and the crashing waves in front. We all feel very fortunate to be here.

After dinner we went back up to hangout with our friends. They had met someone else in the campground, who turns out is an actress for NCIS New Orleans, so that was pretty cool. If you watch the show, she’s the lead detectives daughter. She was just out here for two days, and then headed back to LA.

Tonight was a pretty earlier night. Everyone turned in around 9. I’m writing this, enjoying the crash of the waves, watching the embers of the fire burn down, and chasing off the occasional raccoon (there’s a lot of them here.) Hopefully we get service and I’ll post this tomorrow!