Month: January 2015

Spotted! Elephant seal giving birth, California

Spotted! Elephant seal giving birth, California

Driving the Pacific Coast Highway took us past the elephant seal colony at San Simeon, where hundreds of elephant seals beach themselves for about a month each December/January. On a sunny New Years Day, we visited the beach and wandered up and down the boardwalk 

Photo Of The Week… Golden Gate

Photo Of The Week… Golden Gate

A friend of mine does these jumping style photos when she travels in front of many famous places. She took an awesome one on the Great Wall of China with no one else in the shot! Rare… Anyway, we visited the Golden Gate Bridge (we 

Travel Essentials… Lip Balm

Travel Essentials… Lip Balm

Whether flying, hiking, sunbaking, skiing or just sightseeing every day, you really do need to pack a good, long lasting moistursing lip balm. A tinted one is even better, meaning you can take one less lipstick or lip gloss. The Burt’s Bees tinted lip balms 

McWay Falls, Big Sur California

McWay Falls, Big Sur California

I thought driving the Big Sur coastline from Monterey to Santa Barbara during Winter would allow us the place to ourselves mostly. Even though it was the New Year period, I still thought it wouldn’t be crowded and we could see the ‘hidden gems’ I 

Santa Cruz Boardwalk

Santa Cruz Boardwalk

On our epic drive down the Pacific Coast Highway from San Francisco to Los Angeles, we stopped in for a quick visit to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. A film scene from one of my all time favourite movies ‘The Lost Boys’ I was keen to feel