Yellow sandy beach, waterfall, clear blue water and a beautiful sunny day down at Big Sur. What could be better? Well, it would have helped if the trail from the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park parking lot to the observation deck had been open, but as it happens you can get almost the same view from the road above the cove.

This is the Nokia N95’s take on the view; the ones from my 20D will be coming later (once I have them off the camera). The rest of the day was spent driving back along the coast towards Monterey, where I stopped off at the aquarium, then back down south a little into Carmel for the sunset and dinner.