October 20

Today we headed out on the bus trip to the Hearst Castle, with a stop Elephant Seal Rookery.  In late November and early December the adult male seals, weighing over two tons,arrive at the rookery and threaten, intimidate or, if necessary, fight for dominance over portion of the beach.  The battles can be both dramatic and bloody but seldom cause any life threatening injury.  But today all we seen was a lot of Juvenal males doing a lot of play roles of dominance here on the beach.

 You can tell these are not the big boys, but they are practicing for when they get their chance.

 A lot of them just enjoying the warm sand!!!

 I think I need more sand on my back!!!
Our next stop was  Hearst Castle.

What a castle, this was taken from down by highway 1.

 Our first stop was the visitor center for information, tickets, something to eat, and then off to the I MAX Theater to watch a movie on the building of this place.

 After the movie, we head out for our tour of the castle main rooms,

 Here are a couple of pictures of the main rooms in the house, this happens to be the dinning room.

 This was the smoking room and game room after the dinner was served.

 Indoor pool.

 This is looking doen to the beach from the house.

We had a great day and it is hard to beleive that we are getting close to the end of this trip, just 6 days left.  It is going way to fast, don't want to see these people go.