IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park

After Yosemite in April/May, attention turned back to Big Sur. About an hour 
south of the town of Big Sur is a California State Park, Lime Kiln. If you 
drive in and walk down to the ocean, it's completely uninspiring. The first 
time we did that and just got back in the vehicle and continued on.
 
Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into a 
beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at a 100 foot 
high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular waterfall with a couple 
of torrents showering down; it has about 100 little falls that fan out from the 
top so the bottom of the falls is as wide as the falls are high. Jim Brick has 
some good shots of it, after climbing like a mountain goat which I wasn't about 
to do.
 
Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mammoth kilns built in the 
late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There are 3 of them, each about 
30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling apart in these beautiful overgrown 
redwood forests. How they built these monstrosities way up on this hill in the 
middle of nowhere and how they got the lime stones up and resultant lime back 
down is beyond me.
 
The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind of 
place...
 
http://www.raflexions.com/LKP
 
Hope you enjoy these. Certainly worth a walk if you're ever in the area,
Bob
 
P.S. - Tech stuff: Hasselblad (flex and 203), Velvia 50 and FP4 taken with 
various combinations of apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my back...
 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com

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