The Monday morning drive from Point Arena was going to take us past Russian Gulch State Park, as well as the only lighthouse still in active duty, Point Cabrillo, and then on to Fort Bragg for lunch and a visit to the Glass Beach.
Russian Gulch overlooks:
I made a thing.
There were also deer along the 1/2 mile walk to the lighthouse but they didn't want to seem to stop munching on breakfast long enough to look up at me.
as we had turned to head back down the road to the car, a Great Blue Heron decided to come in for a visit. He was a spectacular model!
From there we headed to Fort Bragg and found a lunch spot outdoors . . . in a makeshift table area in a parking lot of a Travel Lodge, but it worked!
and then it was just down the road from the Glass Beach.
There is very little glass still coming up from the old dump now but you can find bits among the shells.
I played around and made another thing while we were there.
but my FAVORITE part of the Glass Beach?
Sunbathing squirrels!!
From there, we hauled it way out to Shelter Cove and the Black Sands Beach, which was quite a winding trek
We actually passed a couple of elk down in a gulch around some of the switchback turns (no shoulders)
and finally we made it
The sand was magnetic feeling, such a different energy walking in it than on sandier shores.
It's much larger pebbles, called greywacke, and an older compressed shale produced by tectonic activity of one continental and two oceanic plates meeting just offshore.
The sand was magnetic feeling, such a different energy walking in it than on sandier shores.
It's much larger pebbles, called greywacke, and an older compressed shale produced by tectonic activity of one continental and two oceanic plates meeting just offshore.
up next: into the Redwoods!
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