The Days of a Man 



[1880 



The 



Seventeen- 

 mile 

 Drive 



La Punta 



de los 

 Lobos 



Cypress Point and the Point of Pines are now both 

 included in the glorious "Seventeen-mile Drive" 

 from the Hotel Del Monte, situated in a superb 

 park of live oak and pine and everywhere known to 

 world travelers. The road winds through a somber 

 pine forest out to the ocean's edge, then along the 

 shore for many miles the rock-frayed, white- 

 fringed break of blue water against beach or rudely 

 jutting headland on the one hand, and on the other 

 silvery dunes backed by primeval cypresses. Within 

 recent years, also, about forty miles of similarly 

 perfect road have been cut across and up the wooded 

 peninsula, disclosing noble views of both Monterey 

 Bay and the Pacific. Around Pebble Beach just north 

 of Carmel many charming villas are now arising. 



Along the whole coast from Carmel to Cayucos 

 in San Luis Obispo County, the wild and pine- 

 covered Santa Lucia range thrusts itself abruptly 

 into the sea. The result is a series of rincones 1 

 of singular beauty, and so rugged that from Point 

 Sur (about midway) to Cayucos, there is no room 

 for a road. Of all these headlands the most beauti- 

 ful and impressive is Point Lobos, a granite prom- 

 ontory cut by wave action into deep ravines up 

 which the great surf of the rising tide rushes with 

 merciless force, breaking into wondrous mighty 

 cascades of white foam. South of the storm-swept 

 inlets of Alaska nothing finer of its kind appears 

 on any coast. At Lobos, also, the lone, primeval 

 group of gnarled, wind-twisted cypresses, clinging 

 wherever soil remains on top or side, lend their 

 peculiar charm to a spot beautiful indeed without 

 them. 



1 Plural of rincon big nose the Spanish word for headland. 



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