6.06 Rocky Ridge, Garrapata State Park
In the beginning--destination behind A view from the destination--a spectacular place (Don't forget to click on pictures to enlarge) Editor trudging upwards but with vigor after leaving dense forest Jenni 'snaking' her way down this very steep trail towards the ocean “It happened in Monterey”, so goes the song. This is another beautiful region in California, which we are visiting for the third time in a couple of years. Many more times, we hope. “No way we’re going on a Harry Potter hike,” we said to our editor assertively. ‘Don’t be so silly,’ she laughed, ‘I said Garrapata’. “Oh!” We keep noticing there’s not a lot of bliss in ignorance. The notice board at the entrance read: ‘The most beautiful place on earth’. Ha! Where have we seen that before? We were not being cynical but San Diego has ‘the finest’, New York the ‘tallest’, Miami the ‘widest’. You get the point. After hiking through the forest, crossing the river a number of times, casting our eyes on the...