The Pacific coast line and California wild flowers

This weekend, the family went picnic at the Point Lobos State Reserve down at Monterey County.


It's spring, California Poppies along with blossoms of many colors bank the sand trail picturous it could have come out of the cover of Homes and Gardens magazine.



It was a windy day. The rock cliffs was splashed by powerful Pacific waves on one side, and blanketed by wild flowering cacti on the other.



The water was clear and the slopes were made brilliant with lush foliage.





China cove beach was closed, because it is the sea lion's breeding season, mothers nurse their young at this secret refuge.



Down at the shoreline, there were colorful pebbles...



... and some interestingly eroded rocks.



It almost looked like another country.