This time we saw the elephant seal colony by daylight!
We did not even pause for San Simeon:
Nor for Morro Rock:
We stopped, albeit briefly, at Mission Santa Inés (1804) on the outskirts of Solvang. The second mission church was dedicated in 1817 and was mostly collapsed by 1894. Reconstruction began in 1904 and was mostly completed in 1947. The 19th of the 22 arches is on the left:
This chapel, adjacent to the sanctuary, has an 18th-century Mexican carved Mater Dolorosa:
These 17th century Spanish Colonial paintings are a madonna and child (left) and the Black Madonna of Guadalupe, Spain with St. Luke and St. Mark (right):
We took a brief side tour to see the miniature horses at Quicksilver Ranch.
We returned to Solvang for dinner. Solvang is a "Danish" town founded in 1911 by Danish immigrants fleeing the winters of the American Midwest. It has become a tourist shopping destination amidst the wineries of the Santa Ynez Valley.
A wall plaque in the Bit o' Denmark represents Thor in his goat-driven chariot:
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