Lone Cypress Tree

On the Monterey Peninsula between Carmel and Monterey you will find the 17 Mile Drive.  It will cost you $9.75 for a car to drive through but it is worth the drive.  There are many sights to see on this drive and it is a leisure thing you can drive, walk, ride or run.

Closer to the end of the drive you will run into The Lone Cypress.  This is a single cypress tree growing on what certainly used to be a sea arch and stack.  It is a beautiful sight to see the coast here.  If you are early enough in the day you will see the morning fog over the green mountains looking across Carmel Bay and at the city of Carmel-by-the-Sea.  

I could stay here all day.  Just look at this beauty.  It makes me go all Zen inside and gives me a strong urge to meditate for nirvana or something.  If you look at the right side where the mountains start to lose elevation is Point Lobos.  The brown stuff in the ocean is a plethora of kelp.

 Here is another shot of the Lone Cypress slightly closer.  If you look at the tip of the rock, just to the right of the Cypress, you will see a crane.  Perhaps the bird was thinking it was going to be apart of the next Kung Fu Panda movie or something.

The beauty continues on to just on the otherside of the Lone Cypress there is Pescadero Point.  Here is the scene there.  The tip of the mountains across the bay is Point Lobos (right hand side) and behind the tree on the left would be Carmel Bay and the city of Carmel.