Monday, November 17, 2014

Traveling the California Coast

We broke camp at Lat 42.3122460 Long 124.4144011 and continued our southerly course on US101, passing eventually out of Oregon and into California, heading for Redwood National Park and the remote seaside campground at Gold Bluffs Beach.
Maybe Oregon, maybe California...the coasts are equally
impressive
















Ditto















Now California















As soon as you cross the state line, the trees get much, much
larger--they haven't all been hacked down as in Oregon--and
other unmistakably Californian signs appear...the legendary
Trees of Mystery, which we did not visit (although we suspect
Rachel and Rebecca did on a road-trip some years ago)

















At length, and passing our first off-pavement trial, 6 miles of
it, we arrived and set up camp at Gold Bluffs Beach
Campground, Redwood National Park

















The Gold Bluffs, from which miners extracted gold from the
1850s to the 1920s, using largely the copper-plate method
















And there we are, perhaps 100 yards from the roaring surf















The resident elk are not timid















Thus















And then, just before dinner, we were treated to a spectacular
Pacific sunset

1 comment:

Rebecca said...

We did visit! Though our time was largely spent in the fabulous gift shop.