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Partington Cove Big Sur Photos in the fog

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Partington Cove Big Sur Photos in the fog

A rugged example of the beauty of Big Sur you can hike to

Driving through Big Sur there are near infinite pullouts you can stop at and enjoy the views. However, not many of them allow you to go all the way down to the ocean itself. Partington Cove is a tiny inlet that you can access down a long gravel road enjoying the changing views of it as you descend. The cove itself is all large rocks, no beach at all. It is a rugged up-close view of the Pacific Ocean that was a combination of fog and ocean mist when I visited it. I found as cozy of a spot as there is there wedged between some boulders and listened to, looked at, and felt the incoming swells roll on shore.

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Mangrove Coast of Ft. Desoto Park

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This felt like an old childhood "hiding spot" under the canopy of this mangrove tree in Ft. Desoto State Park

Before settling in for a full afternoon and evening of football, I felt it important that I head out in the morning to be around a bit of quiet nature.  The Arrowhead Trail at Ft. Desoto Park is a short one, only about 1.5 miles long, but it is little trafficked and has a few of its own small, secret beaches.  Mangroves claim most of the coast along the edges of the peninsula the Arrowhead Trail follows, but there are a few openings that I fully intend to return to in the spring and use as private swimming holes.

 I have always been very curious about these organic deposits in otherwise clear water.

The first time I came to this area it was low tide and there was a good length of beach.  It was high tide this time, however, so the beachhead was limited to just a few spots.  Still, there was enough space to stand and gaze out over the intercoastal waterway in peace with only a baby horseshoe crab for company, who politely did not make a sound.

One of nearly countless spots on Florida's west coast that would make for great, scenic kayaking