Today started with the standard breakfast buffet at the hotel, followed by an hour drive down the Pacific Coast Highway (Route 1). Our destination was the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park , specifically McWay Falls. I’m sure everyone has seen photos of McWay Falls, it is the waterfall cascading of the rock cliff onto a sandy beach with the blue ocean waves coming the sandy shore to meet the falls. It is one of the pictures everyone thinks of when they think of Big Sur. I wanted to see the falls in person, so we made the hour drive down Route 1. Along the drive we stopped at a few pull offs, one of a lovely bridge, named Rocky Creek Bridge, which is just to the north of Bixby Creek Bridge. We also stopped at the information and ranger station before arriving at McWay Falls. The trail to McWay Falls was an easy quarter mile walk that provided views of the falls from several different angles. I will say the falls in person ...
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