When we left the higher elevations of Yosemite, we drove through dry land, and it was 38°C again. We arrived at the coast just before dark. I knew the Pacific is cold and therefor influences the air temperature at the coast. But I never expected the weather we got when we exited the car.
It was very windy and only 14°C! Good thing we plan to go to Alaska. We pulled the "Alaska suitcase" out of the car immediately before we turned into ice cubes:
The landscape was very beautiful. It reminded me of England (and more so than New England!):
Around noon, the sky was blue and there was no wind until around three. But when the land started to warm, the wind picked up and clouds of mist started to form.
We wanted to see the sun set above the Pacific, but that didn't happen!
We were no longer in bear country, but we still had to watch our food. This time, racoons circled our tents at night:
Obviously, the wind blows a lot around there. Since Americans tend to call us "the Windy's", we felt a connection when we saw this:
Because it didn't get warmer than 18°C at the beach, we didn't feel like relaxing there. We drove inland to spend a few hours at a river.
It was nice and warm up there. It was only 10 km from the coast, and 25°C. We started to think that the weather had changed. But when we drove back in the evening, it went from 25 to 15°C in 10 minutes drive!
On our way down to San Francisco, we stopped at the earthquake trail. The San Andreas Fault shapes the landscape there. We saw a fence that has jumped 6 m after the 1906 earthquake:
And we saw Harbour Seals:
They like doing yoga:
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