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Local color? These surf shots are from the east side of Santa Cruz, California. See the Santa Lucia mountain range at the southern end of Monterey Bay?
First page of Steinbeck's East of Eden:
"I remember that the Gabilan Mountains to the east of the valley were light gay mountains full of sun and loveliness … The Santa Lucias stood up against the sky to the west and kept the valley from the open sea and they were dark and brooding – unfriendly and dangerous." (Eden 3)
Brie is out on her own, 8 years old, she is on her Sponge Bob painted board in mid October 2008.
In this shot sequence, she paddles into a small wave and rides it into the shallows. Bet you she is ripping it up in 2 more summers, she has Kane's feel for the waves.
The first
European to document the Santa Lucias was
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in 1542 while sailing northward along the coast on a Spanish naval expedition.
Cabrillo originally named the southern portion of the range the "Sierras de San Martín", as he was passing the area on 11 November, the feast day for
Saint Martin. The present name for the range was documented in 1602, when another Spanish voyage, this time lead by
Sebastian Vizcaíno, tasked with completing a detailed chart of the coast. Passing by the northern portion of the range on 14 December, he named the range "Sierra de Santa Lucia" in honor of
Saint Lucia.
