Butano And Ano Nuevo state park

Jono and I went tent camping last weekend, and it was lovely. The tent site was very secluded, private and nice and level, and our solitary night at Butano was a pleasure.

Our tent site at Butano state park

We also went for a stroll at Ano nuevo state park, which is famous in the area for it's very large sea lions and elephant seals - which smell bad and are very noisy.
There was a movement in the 50's (I think) to bring these beasts back from their endangered status, and it went so well that they completely over-run this homestead - set up to house the lightouse keeper and scientists that visited to check up on the seals - and its gardens on an island a few miles from shore. The people living there simply abandoned it and left it to be occupied by nature.

I wouldn't want to meet this guy in a shady ally..

A small-sized sealwith abandoned homestead in background

The handsome jono

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