Tiger, if you ever get a chance to visit that area during wildflower season in a really rainy year, do it! There is a place east of SLO, Shell Road, with acres of densely packed flowers -- the air smells like honey. We did a bike tour there, ten years ago:
If you are interested, there are more pictures on our blog -- see the link below -- but this was posted in the early days of my blog, when I did not really know what I was doing. The photos were taken with a point and shoot, before we got a digital SLR:
Wildflower bike tour in the Central Coast area, April of 2005For folks who are not bicyclists or hikers, you are in luck -- the Shell Road area has paved access, and the only problem is finding a place to park because so many people flock to this area to see the flowers in a really good year!
