We said goodbye to Sequoia Field and the adjacent prison this morning:

We drove west to Pinnacles National Park.  It’s over 100 degrees today, so a long hike out into the Pinnacles was out of the question.  We decided to do a short hike to a cave:

Checking out the pinnacles along the way:

Heading into the cave:

Here’s a photo of my father at this same location around 1970:

On the other end of the cave is a small reservoir:

The staircase up to the reservoir:

Back down:

Oreo isn’t much for spelunking:

We drove northwest from Pinnacles:

Within an hour we went from over 100 degrees inland to low 60s on the coast at Santa Cruz.  We continued up the coast to overnight at the state campground in Half Moon Bay.  See the alternating yellow line on the trip map for today’s drive.