Pismo Heights is a section of Pismo Beach that extends up the steep hills overlooking the pier.
Pismo is a resort town….
Plenty of folks live in other places, but maintain a house in Pismo for use as a vacation property. These homes are also often rented out to others who wish to live in a palace for a week.
The dolphin motif is used extensively thorough this area… both in paint and statuary.
Fourth of July decoration
This is a little fourth of July decoration I whipped up using my paint program and a US flag in Pismo.
Pismo staircase
Land is at a premium in a resort town. Due to this, through the years the building activity works higher and higher up the hills overlooking town and the sea. While the views become more spectacular the higher you go, the difficulties of building grow exponentially. Near the very top, where you can see from Point Sal to Diablo, the homes must be very narrow as the land is steep…. driveways are difficult and ‘bottom’ most vehicles out…the west side of the house might be three stories high, while on the East side only one story shows…. the ground is very rocky…. most of the topsoil washes downhill as it unravels from the rocks…. most of the builders try to maintain the original rock mass in the newly-designed landscape. In the case above we can see that the original rock was maintained…. the house was built and a cement stairway winds to the door through the rocks.
- Pismo house
Many of the older homes were built by Portuguese families….they tend to follow the old building styles of the Iberian Peninsula…
Pismo Beach can give a traveler memories of sun-drenched Spanish summertimes.
Pismo houses
More European styled views….
Pismo houses
Again.. very nice architecture
