The Big Game

We’re moving steadily down the California coast toward Point Reyes.  Leaving Ft. Bragg today where we’ve been for a few days to get mail and watch the Super Bowl.  A woman in the campground showwed us how to hook up the cable so we finally got TV in the cramper.  Now all I have to do is figure out where to put the decliner and we can stay out another six months.

The “Lost Coast” of California was pretty interesting.  Its 26 miles of coastline that’s BLM Wilderness.  The Trail is the beach.  It would be interesting to backpack sometime.  We were able to get to both ends of the trail (on some of the steepest roads I’ve ever been on.  Fortunately we weren”t pulling the trailer) but  it was high tide so we couldn’t get very far down the beach.

Ft. Bragg is a logging/fishing town turned into a semi-artistic colony. Some good galleries (especially photography) and lots of fugitives from the 60′s.  We took an old logging train into the hills and saw where they let a lot of daylight into the swamp. They sure did a number on the redwoods.  The coast all along here is prett spetacular, so there’s no shortage of Places to photograph.  It’s a lot different than Florida. Spent a couple of hours with a bunch of harbor seals yesterday morning.

Good thing he was behind that fence or I never would have gotten so close

BLM allotment, California coast. Shoreline trampling 76%. THEY'RE WIDENING THE OCEAN111

 

Roosevelt Elk

 

Lost Coast

Surf Scoter

 

Ft. Bragg coast

 

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