A book!

Yes, I've gone and done it! There's a book of my photography available!

You can buy the hardcopy version through Blurb.com or through Amazon.com in a few days, but honestly, this is a vanity project, pure and simple. If you're really interested, there's a PDF version you can download through the Blurb site for only 6 bucks. If you get the PDF, I get a whopping one dollar profit, as opposed to the .85¢ I get if you purchase the book from Amazon. So I'd rather push the PDF version, although I'll admit the book looks very nice on a coffee table.

If you click through, you can preview it for free!

Pacific

By Misty Crowe

San Luis Obispo through Gaviota

This is a bit of a mixed bag. We were on the last day of our vacation and there was so much to see in this area! There are a couple pictures from the San Luis Obispo Mission (recommended donation only), Buellton's Ostrichland USA (5 dollars) and a beach in Gaviota. The beach was actually the most expensive, because it was at a campground, but it was still only 40-60 dollars for a night on the beach.

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Actual mission grapes from one of the ancient vines originally planted by the original founders of the mission! We did not eat any of these, because it would be rude, but I will admit we found some that had fallen out of the way and tried those.



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This is one of my traditional shots. I love shots of seating, especially in those long, lovely corridors in the missions.



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Here's an ostrich at Ostrichland USA. (They also have emus!) You can pay a little extra and feed the ostriches. These seem like cool, funny birds until you get right up close to them, and then you wonder how anyone had the courage to farm them in the first place!



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A close up of some ostrich feet. You do not want to be on the receiving end of this sort of thing. You can easily see how they may have been dinosaurs at some point.



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Here's the pier at the Gaviota beach. It was golden hour and everything at the beach photographed well.



And a shot of the beach proper.

Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery

I very much suggest this particular location if you can visit. It's totally free and it's positively packed with elephant seals, as well as hungry squirrels and crows. If you like wildlife, this is not to be missed. You can find more information through this link, but of course I'm also going to show you how adorable some of the animals are right below.

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Here are a couple of these lovelies in the water.



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There were a lot of them sleeping. Don't they look soft??



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Their faces have so much personality!



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You can practically hear the funny little sound when this soft baby pushes their nose into the sand.



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Plan to bring something healthy to feed the squirrels when you visit! They will absolutely beg!



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I love how you can see their tiny mouth in this photo.