California Canon Camera Adventure

CRESCENT CITY

A photo journal of Nature Ali's northern California and Oregon Adventure

 SF BAY AREA     HEALDSBURG     REDWOOD COAST     CRESCENT CITY     KLAMATH     TULE LAKE     SHASTA     SACRAMENTO     STOCKTON     WILDLIFE

I finally arrive in Crescent City at noon on Monday. I find Craig busy at work and Anne at home. I accompany her to buy a new mattress, then convince her to go with me to photograph some of the sites. The lighthouse at the south end of the city and a place called Castle Rock are our only stops today. NEXT

Up before dawn the next morning, I head to the beach. Hundreds of Brown Pelicans, thousands of shearwaters, hundreds of gulls, dozens of godwits, turnstones, surfbirds, sanderlings, and other birds greet me with the rising rose-hued breath of sunrise. An American Oystercatcher runs back and forth searching for breakfast, what a fun bird to photograph, with its dramatic red-orange bill and eye. Oops, I almost step on a sea lion. She didn't seem to appreciate it as she lumbered into the surf to join several hundred of her friends lounging on Castle Rock. Boy, I didn't know a gigabyte of pixels would disappear so quickly, back to see Anne and start a day of adventures with her. NEXT

Western Gull

I wanted a shot of the Oregon sign along the beach, but alas the sign was inland, nowhere near the ocean. ;-(                         On our way back Anne pointed out some sculptures at a horse farm made entirely of horse shoes. The family of horse shoe horses is quite fun to see. Then we went to Lake Earl, a large freshwater lake with many trails leading towards the water. I got my life BANANA SLUG, the California state mollusk! Strange that I had never seen one in 28 years of living in California. There were lots of really neat mushrooms growing along the trails and at the lake I photographed an interesting site in the dunes. Something had walked along the side of the sand leaving impressions that looked like sandpipers.

NEXT STOP KLAMATH