Los Osos Deserves Love and Respect

Aaron Ochs
4 min readFeb 2
The famous Los Osos bear statue greets motorists on South Bay Blvd.

Los Osos is a beautiful place, but it’s woefully underappreciated and underrepresented. It’s time to change that.

Last week, I had the opportunity to observe the devastation at Vista de Oro Estates, an area ravaged by floods and a mudslide that occurred after our most recent storm. Residents showed me on their phones photos and videos including several feet of water and mud rushing down their streets…

Aaron Ochs

Author, artist, advocate and entrepreneur from Morro Bay, California.