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Big Sur Gallery Wrapped Canvas Pictures
Big Sur Gallery Wrapped Canvas Pictures
Big Sur, this narrow strip of paradise, ninety miles long and twenty wide holds a romance and fascination in its very name. Big Sur is a sparsely populated region of the Central Coast of California where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. These are just a few of the natural wonders that make Big Sur a great place to visit. Although it has no specific boundaries, many definitions of the area include the 90 miles of coastline from the Carmel River in Monterey County south to the San Carpoforo Creek in San Luis Obispo County and extend about 20 miles inland to the eastern foothills of the Santa Lucias. It seems impossible to speak of Big Sur without reaching for poetry. Such imagery can only remind us of glories glimpsed. If you haven't seen the Big Sur, no one can explain it to you. If you have, no one needs to. It is a place of undeniable power, a forbidding place to those accustomed to control. Wilderness is still the essence of the place. On land, the huge Ventana Wilderness protects ninety-five percent of the land. The few humans who dwell in the Big Sur seem to be here on sufferance, welcome so long as they live quietly and with respect. There have inevitably been inroads, but the coast has had time and quiet to begin healing the insults of those who came only with profit in mind.