Just when you least expect it...

With a rack like this, all the ladies love me

Personally, I like to add a bit of color to my attire

TRINIDAD, CA - - After leaving a campground experience to forget (noisy, loud and still going a 4am), we set out through a mountainous section as the route veers away from the coast.   Expecting nothing but very twisty, narrow road for 22 miles, we weren't disappointed.  But about  7am and 10 miles in, we got a bonanza surprise, 4 bull elk were grazing very close to the road.
     After about 10 weeks of encountering little larger than a squirrel and a couple of wild burros we had to think about what to do...for about 10 seconds.  By sheer chance, this quartet were right near a pull-out.  We parked, got out the cameras and long lens...and waited for the guys to scatter.  They posed.  I moved quite close.  They kept munching.  Looking at the antlers, it appeared that two were very mature with two up-and-coming young adults completing the group.
     Click on the link to Lydia's blog to learn/see more on the campground group from hell.