. American forestry. Forests and forestry. THE TREE OF LEGEND AND ROMANCE 77. Photograph by Mark Daniels. A VISTA ON LOBOS POINT At every turn of the winding trail a new vista, startling in its exotic character, bewilders the observer, until the sense of location and direction is all but lost. Climbing amongst the trees and rocks on this rugged point is as hazardous as threading the twisting lanes of the old-fashioned maze. the Stragglers of the great eastern forests that were cut ofT by the Pacitic is ahnost always the first subject of conjecture on the part of the tourist. About 125 miles do
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. THE TREE OF LEGEND AND ROMANCE 77. Photograph by Mark Daniels. A VISTA ON LOBOS POINT At every turn of the winding trail a new vista, startling in its exotic character, bewilders the observer, until the sense of location and direction is all but lost. Climbing amongst the trees and rocks on this rugged point is as hazardous as threading the twisting lanes of the old-fashioned maze. the Stragglers of the great eastern forests that were cut ofT by the Pacitic is ahnost always the first subject of conjecture on the part of the tourist. About 125 miles down the coast from San Francisco lies the Bay of Monterey, at the south- ern extremity of which the first cypress trees arc to be found. These trees possess more the charac- ter of the cedar of Lebanon than they do of any \'ariety of cypress, and are known to those who burden their minds with etymological detail as the ciiprcssiis marcrocarpa. From this point, which is known as the Del Monte Peninsula, and which forms the southern shores of this wonder- ful sapphire bay, picturesque groves and occa- sional isolated specimens are dotted along the coast for some twenty-odd miles to Lobos Point. Here, again, the old adage, "It never rains but it pours," is borne out by the riot of exquisite beauty which confronts the observer on everv side. Nature seems to have concentrated on this locality in the development of extremes of pic- turesqueness and intensity of color. The shore Hue is broken and jagged, with here and there a stretch of ivory-colored sand beach, terminated and broken by precipitous cliiTs, against which the indigo sea hurls its pearls and sheets of water that are a pale jade green against the lemon-colored horizon and the setting sun. A motor trip along the coast line gives one the effect of a kaleidescopic change of coloring, the rapid succession of which should vary with the speed amongst the conifers of the Sierra Ne- vada. In fact, in many respects they r
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