Hot springs and nudists

Sticking with the mountain exploration theme over the past 2 weeks - we went hot spring hunting today. Our neighbours across from us in family housing decided to join us. About 20 miles from our house near Gaviota beach that we visited a few weeks ago we found a spring called Gaviota peak hot spring. The trailhead was easy to get to and it starts through an amazing meadow of Oak trees. After a short 1 mile uphill climb you get to a narrow path which leads to the spring - you can smell the Sulfur long before you get to the spring. There was a nudist bathing in the spring and at first there was this awkward pause where we think what now - but we just decided to join him in our costumes - the water was really warm and the nudist turned out to be an very interesting environmental engineer from Berkeley who had been to South Africa - so I ended up having a long chat with him about SA.

Gaviota hot springs 8 November