Chapter 386: Hearst Castle
If you see piles of deflated blue and purple balloons on the beach, don't think it's avant-garde art - they're actually the famous "Wind Sailor" sail jellyfish. This creature generally floats on the surface of the open sea, follows the currents, travels with the wind, and uses hard, triangular "sails" in search of food.
Stranded jellyfish are close relatives called sail jellyfish and often inhabit open seas. They use their stinging tentacles to capture food, and over the course of a lifetime, they take on two different body forms.
The passing time can't keep the feelings of the past, but the sunshine, the beach, and the light snow-white waves have witnessed the changes of the years and the vicissitudes of life...
Leaving Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, Zhang Feng arrives at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, another famous park half an hour's drive away.
Founded in 1962, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park is a state park in California, United States, located on the Big Sur Coast. The park is named after Julia Pfeiffer Burns, a respected resident and rancher of the Big Sur area in the early 20th century, who lived in the area for most of her life until her death in 1928.
An RV at the entrance of the park actually has a special mailbox, and Zhang Feng thinks that the park staff lives in the car at night. In fact, the point is that the mailbox with a beetle painted on it is so cute.
【Mcay Falls】
Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park is famous for the world-famous McVey Falls.
McVey Falls is one of only two "Tidefalls" in California, the other being Alamere Falls. The source of the waterfall is Mcay Creek, and the amount of water remains constant throughout the year. McVey Falls in Julia Pfeifer Burns State Park, a waterfall that falls on the beach from a boulder crevice in the coast, is a moving scene that often appears in various calendars and landscape atlases
The waterfall cascades like a jade curtain from the top of the cliff to the beach 80 feet below, and the milky white waves ebb and flow, sometimes going straight up to the beach and blending with the falling waterfall. The beach also curves with the shape of the inlet, and some abrupt and sharp rocks dot the two corners of the beach like irregular chessboards, such a wonderful layout, I have to sigh once again at the masterpiece of nature that is omnipresent in this world
After visiting Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, it means that Zhang Feng's [Highway 1] day's itinerary has been successfully completed. Zhang Feng is about to leave for the night's accommodation [Riverside Campground & Cabins], which is also the first time in his life that he will live in a cabin in the wilderness, and the mood is both anticipatory and excited.
Big Sur Banks Camp is located 22 miles south of Carmel, just 10 minutes from the beach or hiking trails. There are 40 camping sites for RV or tent on site. If you choose not to have a car or tent, there are 16 cabins of different sizes for you to stay at. Coin-operated hot showers are available at the camp (US25¢ for three minutes).
The first thing you need to do when you enter the camp is to check in at the Big Sur Camp office lodge, where you can also ask for tourist information about Highway 1 in California, and there is a kiosk and laundry facilities.
Zhang Feng's entry into the residential camp camp is also quite a good experience. After all, Zhang Feng didn't have to stay in hotels and inns every day during his self-driving trip on Highway 1 in California, and occasionally stayed in campsites, walking in the woods at night, listening to the murmuring of streams, and looking up at the stars in the sky.
Unlike Zhang Feng, who chooses to stay in a cabin, more tourists choose to camp here, and each camping site provides a picnic table and a stove kang. The camp is located in the middle of a redwood forest, surrounded by lush trees and a babbling stream.
Tourists who drive mobile RVs to camp in the camp are quite arrogant.
Zhang Feng stayed in Cottage No. 5, a beautiful little wooden house located deep in the forest.
When I opened the door of the hut, I saw a small independent lounge, the furnishings in the room were quite warm, a lamp, a pot of flowers, a painting, a small wooden table... The bedrooms are also quite neat and elegant, and the overall color matching is as beautiful as an oil painting. Even the sleeping environment can be so beautiful, Zhang Feng wondered if it was time to go to bed impatiently.
Hearst Castle, the first stop of the day.
Hearst Castle, also known as Hearst Castle, is located on the San Simeon coast in central California, USA, overlooking the coastline and the Pacific Ocean on a hill about 500 meters high. He is an American media mogul [William. Randolph. illiam Randolph Hearst's private villa, more than 200,000 acres of pasture by the sea, is also the property of the owner of the castle. In 1957, six years after the death of its owner, his descendants donated the castle to the State of California. Hearst Castle is a place where Hearst entertains guests, and he usually invites celebrities from all walks of life, including Hollyood movie stars, or politicians.
The way to get here is to fly to the private jet next to Hearst Castle, or Hearst to take guests from Los Angeles in his own car.
At that time, it was always called "The Ranch", and it was not until Hearch's death that the estate was donated here, and it became called "Hearch's Castle". Known as the most expensive private villa ever built in the United States, the Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument welcomes thousands of visitors from all over the world each year.
When you get to the entrance of Hearst Castle and the Visitor Center, you haven't entered the castle yet, because the castle is still on the hill and you have to take a bus up the hill again.
Hearst Castle is originally known as La Cuesta Encantada0 in Spanish, and was founded in 1919. The hill on which Hearst Castle is located was originally the campsite of the Hearst family, and in 1919, William. Hearst] invited the famous architect of the time [Julia? Julia Morgan built him a charming cottage, and six years later he moved into the unfinished cottage, which continued construction until 1947, when he became seriously ill and stopped.
In the long 28 years, the main building, La Casa Grande, was completed, with 115 bedrooms, living rooms, a library, a cinema, a reception room, a billiard room, a restaurant and an indoor swimming pool. Three independent guest rooms: La Casa del Sol, La Casa del Mar, and La Casa-Monte, with a total of 47 rooms; An outdoor swimming pool, 127 acres of gardens and fountains, among other things, are planned, including the gate of the lodge, which has not yet been completed.