CA Highway 1 Closed, a Stealth Camping Spot & Seals!

Well, ----! Hey everybody, I just wanted to let you know that I'm here just off of Highway 1 in San Simeon and see this big stretch of street behind me? That is where I'm going to park tonight. Now on the other side of the street there is a sign that says no RV parking from 10 p.m to 6 a.m but there is no such sign on this side of the street. You can see there's a big hedge there behind that there's a hotel and then there's the one I've seen other people do it last night so I'm going to do it tonight if anyone's traveling this way. Good tip! Hey everybody, it's Robin with Creativity RV and I'm sure you already saw that my day did not end up the way I thought it was going to. I wanted to head up the 1 to see Big Sur but when I got up there unexpectedly the highway was closed so I turned around but it was a happy accident because I saw lots of stuff today. I'm going to show you that now and then come back and tell you what my plan is. I got to actually go back to this great spot where I found the lighthouse but I wasn't able to stop and see more of these great elephant seals which are all over the beach there. They stretch about six miles and learns that they're really to me a lot like campers because they actually spend about eight or ten months of their year alone out in the ocean feeding and then they come back just a couple of times a year to rest and socialize and mate and they actually drop a lot of weight while they're there. The males that you see here can be about 5,000 pounds when they arrive on the beach and they can lose two or three thousand pounds just laying there because they don't eat. They just sit there and and molt which you can see and there's this great organization that has volunteers that go up and down the viewing area and answer any questions that you might have. So I talked to some of those people and they were just really amazing great place to see this stuff but they also told me that there are certain seasons here where you know they will be mating and then they'll go back out and they'll come back to have their babies so there are just baby seals everywhere and I'm going to come back and try and hit that another time but they were just fun to watch you know they throw dirt on themselves to stay cool or to give themselves some sunscreen and they stay for a little while and then they go back out to sea and what I thought was really great about this is that not only can you see these guys from the viewing area but you can pull over anywhere on the one in like that six mile stretch and see these guys and like put out a camp chair and you know spend some time with them and you know what this ended up being a great stuff for me this is why I love RV life I didn't expect to love this as much as I did and after I left I was so thankful again that I lived this life it beats living in a cube every day I love living and working on the road so it ended up being a great day you never know where you're going to end up now in this great area which is highway 46 headed up to the where I'm going to do some free camping on my way up to the San Francisco area but I got to see those sea lions and these great golden covered hills of flowers and a lighthouse I've got about another hour in front of me but I'm going to stop now and have some lunch in front of this great view which is some rolling green hills with them out with the ocean in the background hope you guys enjoyed this please like and subscribe and thank you for joining me safe travels and be free