August 30, 2007 Morro Bay State Park/Montana De Oro State Park, CA

This is a pic of Hazard Canyon. (Hazard Reef)

Talk about feeling like a big kid! Woah!!! This place was awesome! I miss it so much!!! So beautiful...it has "stolen my heart"!


After our sea kayaking event and grabbing lunch, Vince took me up to Montana De Orro State Park.

Talk about something amazing! Jeez!!!

This is a pic of Morro Bay Rock:

It is now illegal to climb here. A lot of the climbing on the peaks near or in this area is now illegal. Very interesting...

It's part of the Nine Sisters (The Morros). The Nine Sisters are a chain of 9 extinct volcanoes. They are major peaks that lie in a linear fashion extending from San Luis Obispo to Morro Bay. The Nine Sisters are: Morro Rock, Black Hill, Cabrillo Peak, Hollister Peak, Cerro Romauldo, Chumash Peak, Bishop Peak, Cerro San Luis (Madonna) and Islay Hill. The highest of the peaks is Bishop 1,559 feet.

If you want to read up on it, here's a link: Morro Bay Rock

Also: The Nine Sisters

Going into the this area was so gorgeous! Eucalyptus trees everywhere. They 're not native to California either! They are Australian! Interesting, huh?

Vince took me to this place called Hazard Reef in the State Park here in Morro Bay.

I had the most amazing time here. I saw things up close I've really never seen in "real" life. There were awesome dunes. It was like a coastal desert or something.

We hiked to the edge of this trail. It came to a cliff drop off. I looked at Vince and said, "Dude are we actually going down this thing?" Of course he said yes. I was thinking "hell no" i am not! hahaha

He jumped and showed me it was all dune...sand. It was a huge playground!

Some of the pics are really deceiving! It was really steep!

Vince took the first leap! Then I wasn't as scared....

Vince had a blast! He said he hadn't been down these since he was a kid!

Yeah, I was still a little scared, but it was a freakin' blast going down that thing! Vince took some pics...probably hoping to get some carnage shots!

This is what I was headed towards:

Whoo hoo! Yee haw! What a blast!

And....

...done!!! Finally!!!

"Look what I slid down, Mom and Dad!" :) hehe

The adventures of Vince and Sue:

This place was so amazing!

Vince, you are the man! Thanks so much for taking these pics for me with my camera and showing me some features on my cam!!!

Of course, I had to run up and down the dune again!!!! This one was fun! Just a straight up sand dune! Whoo-hoo!

Leaving the beach and hiking out on the Hazard Reef trail:

It was like a jungle or something on the way back!

This was the pic I took at the end of the trail looking back towards the coast:

The sun was setting, so it was kind of hard to really get the shot I was hoping for.

What an exciting adventure! I had so much fun. It was a learning experience too. It felt kind of like I was on a field trip or something! lol