Point Lobos A Rare Big Bur Beauty
Despite my belief that Big Sur is vastly overrated, McWay Cove and McWay Falls are two of the highlights of Big Sur, but they are not unique to the Pacific Coast.
Another highlight is the Point Lobos Natural Reserve (shown above), which was just barely saved from the development that mars the Monterey Coast around Pebble Beach Drive, often with grotesque over-consumptive development.
The circular shapes in the rocks are called concretions, which are formed by erosion.
There are other coves all along the North Coast and Southern Oregon Coast, although it is highest waterfall.
Located in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, McWay Cove and Waterfall on the Big Sur Coast of California. Much of the coastline and inland is charred and burned by many fires.
The cove is one of the few highlights for me along the denuded coast.
Far superior are the Southern Oregon Coast and North Coast (Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte coasts).
Big Sur is far, far, far overrated, in my personal opinion.
I think the reason it is overrated is because of the number of magazine writers, TV crews and A-listers who travel there from the L.A. and San Francisco metropolises.
Very few of these people and crews get up to, say, the Mendocino Coast (town of Mendocino) and its quaint countryside, or the Humboldt Coast (Lost Coast, Trinidad, Patrick's Point, the lagoons) and its natural and rugged beauty.
The same could be said for the picturesque and hidden beauties of the Del Norte County Coast (Pebble Beach Drive, the lighthouse) and the Southern Oregon Coast (Boardman State Corridor with its land bridges and coves).
All of these coastlines are immensely superior to Big Sur.
Photo by Glenn Franco Simmons. © Glenn Franco Simmons.
