Important Note: This is a 7-8 hour event and participants will need to ride share to limit the number of cars in our tour. There will be a meeting place in Santa Margarita to arrange ride shares. Driving time is 1.5 hours each way. High clearance and FWD or AWD vehicles are preferred on the roads in Carrizo. You must begin with a full tank of gas. 

Join Mike Bush and Kathanne Lynch for an all day excursion to view the birds and blooms of the Carrizo Plain National Monument. The Carrizo Plain is located 80 miles from Morro Bay and is home to diverse communities of wildlife and plant species, including several listed as threatened or endangered. The eastern edge is marked by the San Andreas fault, although we will see this only from a distance and as a fault scarp. Soda Lake, its centerpiece, is a glistening bed of white salt, (now covered by water) set within a vast open grassland. We will have an assortment of wildflowers and perhaps a super bloom visible across Soda Lake, migrating as well as local birds, and perhaps a sighting of pronghorns or the endangered San Joaquin Kit Fox.