JUNE 12th – Brookings to Crescent
City CA
We
headed into California today to photograph Battery Point Lighthouse, and then visit a couple of coastal redwoods state parks. Jedediah Smith State Park and Del Norte Coast Redwoods
State Park.
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| BATTERY POINT LIGHTHOUSE |
Battery Point Lighthouse is located at the mouth of Crescent city harbor on a
small island and is accessible only during low tide. It survived completely in
tact the tsunami of 1964 following the strongest earthquake to strike in the
northern hemisphere. It is quite a lovely setting.
At
Jedediah State Park we were challenged by the dark forest and the magnificently
large trees. It was still fun to walk among these wonderful trees, and enjoy
the play of light. It really is impossible to show the height of these trees,
but one can get a good idea of their size from their base. We spent two hours
here enjoying the challenges.
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| A SENSE OF SIZE |
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| A TREE MAN |
At
Del Norte Coastal Redwood S. P. we were able to walk among giant trees with
rhododendron plants scattered among them. We slowly worked our way up and down
Damnation Creek Trail as the sun began to emerge. We wanted to photograph without the full sun as the contrast would be very difficult to handle.
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| TRUNK DETAIL |
This
afternoon’s dinner meal was leftovers assembled at our house in the Pistol
River area. When we got there we learned that there was no water!! We called
the owner/manager who came out shortly and was able to fix the problem which
was pump related. We were going to be able to enjoy showers later in the
evening!! Yeah. Thank goodness we had returned to the house for dinner, otherwise it would have been about 10 p.m. when we discovered the plumbing issue!
Tonight
we went to Pistol River for sunset. The beach here is quite long with a few sea
stacks. There is a large display of lupine above the beach. I opted to stay up
there as my knee was not feeling strong, and the footing down to the beach
looked stressful. This gave me a big picture of the area and the sunset.
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| PISTOL RIVER BEACH SOUTH |
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| LUPINE AND BEACH VIEW |
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| SUNSET, PISTOL RIVERBEACH |
Stunning photos, well done.
ReplyDeleteThe light green writing at the bottom makes it very difficult to find where to click on for a comment, in the end I guessed and luckily got it right. Have a good day Diane
Thanks Diane. When I look at it on the web the printing is in blue, but then when I replied here it was the light yellow!! Will have to work on that.
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