Day 27 Driving the Big Sur west coast to Santa Cruz

we returned to see Mroro Bay by daylight and saw sea otters, extraordinarily plump squirrels as well as sealions, interesting surf wading birds and a pelican....

 brown pelican

 4 sea otters playing in the bay... 

 obese squirrel

then we drove on and found the most spectacular coast..

 elephant seals..

 huge tarantula

full moon over a globe artichoke field just as we arrived at Santa Cruz.....