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I've never been a beach person - nor much of a water person for that matter - there are only lakes and rivers in the land-locked Prairies scoured out of the ground by the glacial action of the last ice age and the meltwaters of the Rocky Mountains .

But, I think I could be...

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2013.03.17 Finding a Fault on Another Way to Ojai
 
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    We were so impressed with our trip to Ojai and around we decided to go back the opposite way, and drove through some great scenery and even got up close to (actually right on top of) the San Andreas Fault in one spot.
Instead of taking Interstate 5 (I-5) we took (most of) The Old Road beneath or beside the highway. It winds through a couple towns remaining in the (windy) shadow of this major north-south trafficway.
   

 

 
   

 

 
   

 

 
   

 

 
Off the I-5, more room for cruising!
   

 
   
From the valley into the forested hills.
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

Snow!!!
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
A panorama looking northeast over the San Joaquin Valley.
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   
We came to a T in the road: time to make a choice.
To the right I spied this old 76 Union sign, and we needed a stop.
   

 
   
This station hadn't pumped gas in a long time. But, there was a road...
   

 
   
... to something called "Carizzo Plain National Monument."
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   
There was a parking area and kiosk explaining this "monument."
   

not my picture
The Carizzo Plain is one of the easiest places to see the San Andreas Fault and it runs right through the sag pond behind the kiosk. We were on the most famous earthquake fault in the world!
   

 
   

salt-filled sag pond
   

 
   
A road through the plain looked like it could take us somewhere interesting.

 
   

 
   

 
   
But it turned rough and not so cruise-friendly so we headed back.
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   
Cracks could be seen in the landscape from the highway.
   

 
Homeward now in reverse direction to our prior trip. We pass an orchard and vineyard, a little too early in the season for them to look like much.
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   
Out of the Plain, entering Los Padres National Forest
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

It's all downhill
   

from here...

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
Oops, didn't photograph all the way to the ocean, but trust that it was there eventually. :)
 
 
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