- BIG SUR (CALIFORNIA) Part 2 -
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BIG SUR (left) just South of Carmel.


'Some of the finest novelists, painters, poets and photographers have found inspiration for their works in Big Sur's Coast. Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Austin, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, Lillian Ross, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams all came here.

    Henry Miller, one of America's greatest writers, lived and worked for nearly two decades in Big Sur. He was a founding preservationist for the Ventana region, and said of it, "That same prehistoric look; the look of always; nature smiling at herself in the mirror of eternity."' (Pelican Network)

Inland the Santa Lucia Range rises along the whole distance of Big Sur. 'They appear supple, hospitable. But they're rough. Although only one-third the altitude of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Santa Lucias have more dramatic altitude changes. Five-thousand footpeaks plunge to the sea. You can hike through redwood canyons to heights above 2,000 feet in just two to three hours, and feel like you are ... right on top of the Pacific.' (Pelican Network)

Butterfly at Cape St Martin.