By-the-Wind Sailors surround Morro Rock

Recent Hike: Morro Rock Bay

• 📍 Location: Morro Bay, CA

• 🥾 Distance: 2.8 miles

• 📈 Elevation Gain: 2 ft

• 📷 Gear Used: Sony a7iv

Favorite moment: Watching Morro Rock come closer and closer while trying not to step on the By-the-Wind Sailors

Back in April, I took a winding road trip up the California coast—a journey stitched together by eucalyptus breezes, coastal curves, and impromptu pauses to soak it all in. One such pause brought me to Morro Bay, where the ocean unfurled a sight both majestic and surreal.

Morro Rock—ancient, volcanic, and immovable—rises from the shoreline like a sentinel watching over the tides. Its weathered face is a monument to time, a geological relic that anchors the town’s horizon. But what drew me even closer was the unexpected communion of sea life along the beach: dozens of translucent jellyfish scattered like scattered pearls across the sand. They shimmered in the sunlight like living glass, delicate and strangely poetic.

There was something quietly symbolic about it all. The permanence of Morro Rock next to the ephemeral presence of jellyfish, washed ashore by forces unseen. It felt like a meeting point between resilience and vulnerability—between what lasts and what drifts. I remember standing there, camera in hand, awed by nature’s layered choreography.

This photo became a visual bookmark of the trip—not just a snapshot of the coast, but a reminder of how road journeys often gift us the unexpected. A reminder to pause, to notice, to marvel.

California’s shoreline is full of these moments. This was mine.

Thanks for journeying with me!
– Bridget