08/17/2026
I took a lot of pictures of squirrels on our Pacific Coast Highway vacation. This one was taken at Morro Bay on 6/21/26. During our trip, I had a foreign tourist ask me what this animal is. I was shocked that he didn't know what a squirrel was. I told him and he looked it up on his phone. I had to spell it out for him, too. He said he was from Europe and they didn't have squirrels. I researched after the fact and it seems that most of Europe has at least one type of squirrel so I am not sure what part of Europe he was from. It became a family joke whenever we saw a squirrel after that point.