Despite having lived in CA most of my life, I never visited Bixby Bridge near Big Sur in the California Central Coast.
I researched it, the state prohibits drone flights along long stretches of the coast including this area because of marine...
If it wasn’t so wet and windy I’d be out looking for some dark skies to try some hyperlapses of the auroras that are the cause of the high Kp. As it is, the rain is more of a risk.
You are fortunate it was low enough to retrieve. One of my sons has been storing one of his drones about 200 ft up in a tree for the last few years. The return to home altitude was not set high enough to clear the trees.