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#TidesOutTuesday #RockinTuesday #MyBest2025

This looks like small waves in water, but it's actually a rock that can only be accessed at low tide at Coon Creek Beach in Montaña De Oro State Park, California.

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Close up of what is actually a rock that has been worn into smooth waves and ridges, dark in color and shiny so that it reflects light, much like water. There are also subtle stripes which help add to the water illusion. Broader view of the same rock. Now you can see the rest of the rock and that it is sitting in coarse beach sand. There is another rock with similar textures next to it. The "wave" portion of the rock can still be seen with its surface shape and shiny reflections of light making it look blue.
December 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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#RockinTuesday #MyBest2025

One of my most memorable hikes in 2025 was up this intriguing rocky trail to Valencia Peak in Montaña De Oro State Park, California.

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A somewhat wide trail (at this point) that is steep and has diagonal shale rock coming up in rows. A lot of loose stones are scattered around as well. There are shrubs on each side and Valencia Peak looks dark and foreboding above. The sky is cloudy and dramatic. The trail was not quite as steep as it looks, but it was a challenging trail. Valencia Peak Trail in Montaña De Oro State Park, Los Osos, California.
December 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#BlueskyMonday #MountainMonday

View of the California coastline from Valencia Peak in Montaña de Oro State Park.

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Standing on a mountain top looking at other green mountains around us. To the right you can see a small look at the Pacific Ocean. In the foreground are some purple lupine in bloom. The sky is blue with puffy white clouds. Taken in spring 2025, Valencia Peak, Montaña de Oro State Park, Los Osos, California.
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#tenpercentmorecomplicated shares a cool video about a bike ride/camp in #MontañadeOro State Park #LosOsos #morrobay #California #singletrack #mtb #tumbleweedbikes ❤️🚲
Coastal Singletrack Adventure | Montaña de Oro MTB
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October 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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#BlueskyMonday #MountainMonday

View from Valencia Peak, Montaña De Oro State Park, California.

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I'm standing on Valencia Peak in Montaña De Oro State Park, Los Osos, California and looking at all the surrounding mountains in the area. The mountains are fairly green, and there are patchy clouds, so there are patterns of light and shadows, giving a greater sense of atmosphere. The foreground is golden, dry grass.
September 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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#TidesOutTuesday
#ColorADay #BlueTue
#RockinTuesday

Inside a cave worn into the cliff. It is only accessible during low tide. Coon Creek Beach in Montana De Oro State Park.

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We are standing inside a cave created by the ocean wearing away at the cliffs over time. There is a very large and tall opening to the sea and blue sky in front of us. It’s dark in the tunnel but with the limited light, you can see wet rocks and small pools of water. Coon Creek Beach in Montana De Oro State Beach in Los Osos, California.
September 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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#BlueskyArtShow

Today's theme is #jagged

The jagged-rock trail up to Valencia Peak in Montana De Oro State Park, California. You can literally see the force of the earth pushing up.

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A wide hiking trail is on a steep mountain side. Jagged stratified layers of white rock push up diagonally from the ground in rows. Beyond the trail is Valencia Peak with its summit almost in the clouds. There are dramatic puffy white/gray clouds creating light and shadow patterns. Valencia Peak trail in Montana De Oro State Park in Los Osos, California.
August 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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#Scape

View from the hiking trail up Valencia Peak in Montana De Oro State Park, California. In the distance is Morro Rock/Bay

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The foreground view is from a light-colored, rocky trail through wildflowers and brush out into the distance of hazy hills, the ocean and Morro Rock/Bay in the far distance. The sky is blue with beautiful puffy clouds. You can see wave rolling in along the coast. Valencia Peak trail in Montana De Oro State Park, California.
June 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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#Scape #OceanScape #WildflowerScape

This is what was behind me from my last post of wildflowers and a mountain. #PointBuchonTrail

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A large patch of California poppies grows next to the cliffs and bluffs of the Pacific Ocean in Montana De Oro State Park, California. Beyond the flowers are cliffs and bluffs with scattered rocks rising from the ocean. In the distance are hazy mountains and blue sky.
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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#Stunday

When you reach the top of Valencia Peak in Montana De Oro, you find a picnic table with a 360° amazing view!

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Looking down the long edge of a weathered, wooden picnic table towards the view of the ocean, Morro Bay and Rock. Around the picnic table is light-colored rock and dirt...very barren. The sky is blue with some clouds in the distance.
May 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#FlowersOnFriday #Scape

Lupin and monkey face wildflowers on the slopes of Valencia Peak in Montana De Oro State Park. In the far distance, Morro Rock and Bay.

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A large lupin bush (purple flowers) and monkey face bush (orange flowers) are in the foreground and are sitting on the steep mountain slope. Behind them is a view of the coastline from Montana De Oro on up to Morro Bay/Rock.
May 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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#Stunday Sunday

Morro Rock and Bay seen from Los Osos near the entrance to Montana De Oro State Park in California.

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Looking out at a great vista showing coastal vegetation, sand dunes, an inlet/estuary, the coastline with waves crashing and Morro Rock in the distance with dramatic clouds in the sky.
May 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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#Stunday

California poppies on the mountainsides of Valencia Peak in Montana De Oro, which means mountain of gold...named after the golden poppies that cover the landscape.

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Standing on a mountainside looking down at the many golden California poppies covering the mountainside. Behind this slope is another slope rising up which reveals stratified layers of rock.
May 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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It's Sunday #Stunday!

This is the view from the top of Valencia Peak in Montana De Oro State Park in California.

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Standing on a mountain top. There is dirt and grass in the foreground, then green hills with visible trails and patterns of light and shadow from the partly cloudy day. The clouds are dramatic. Mountains stretch far into the distance.
May 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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#Scape #Landscape #SeaScape

View from the top of Valencia Peak in Montana De Oro State Park. This is looking towards Morro Rock/Bay. It's visible, but very small in this photo.

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View up the California Central Coast from Valencia Peak in Montana De Oro State Park. There is small vegetation in the foreground with green hills and mountains in the background as well as the coastline curving inward toward Morro Bay. The sky is blue with puffy white clouds.
May 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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#Scape

From my hike this week up Valencia Peak in Montana De Oro State Park. The views were spectacular of the surrounding mountains and coastline!

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View from the top of Valencia Peak of all the green mountains and wildflowers. The sky is blue with a lot of beautiful clouds.
May 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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#RockinTuesday

From my hike this morning...it was an interesting stratified rock formation in the trail. Valencia Peak, Montana De Oro State Park, Los Osos, California.

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A steep trail is going straight up the side of the mountain. The trail is wide at this point and consists of stratified rock at an angle and in rows...thus forming ridges. In the background is the top of Valencia Peak. The sky is ominous with clouds.
May 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Slow shutter-speed captures 🏔️ Montaña de Oro State Park, CA USA 🏔️ #landscape #nature #photography #montañadeoro #california #nikon
April 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNoise

The wonderful "noise" of waves crashing against the rocks.

Bluffs Trail, Montana De Oro, California State Park

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Waves are crashing against rocks jutting out from bluffs.
April 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Three eucalyptus trees. 6x8 oil on paper. #lososos #montanadeoro
March 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Sunday is #STUNDAY. Post your best photos and tag them #stunday
March 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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#Montañadeorostatebeach, #cormorant, #centralcoast, #photography, #birds, #naturephotography, #Montañadeoro
February 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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#mtb Great Day at #MontanaDeOro group of 7 all over 50 and no #emtb. Busy day. Calm before the storm.
February 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM