Getting up early

The Rancho Guadalupe Dunes County Park, at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, the road leading to the beach. When you paid very close attention, and were very, very quiet, you could watch the plovers and terns--you could hear them throughout the reserve until you went down to the water and the sound of the surf at the beach took over. There, little sanderlings were running all around in the waves.