Crater Lake sunset
and moonrise.
Mt. Shasta, 100 miles away.
I visited my friend Peter in West Haven.
He gets his drinking water from a nearby spring.
Did some boondocking in the Shasta Trinity National Forest
Then there was this:
Spent a couple of days in Sebastopol. This artist has a real presence in town.
Naked ladies. They were everywhere.
This church is in Bodega, where The Birds was filmed.
Those are pelicans and they'll peck the hell out of you.
It was so foggy at Point Reyes you couldn't see
more than a couple hundred feet.
This must be the end.
It says so right there on the sign.
The lighthouse at Point Arena is framed by some unusual geology.
Spirals
This is a great campground. Primitive and close to the
highway, it is also right next to the ocean. You can hear the surf
at all times. The air was cool. I kept the windows open.
Coastal creature.
At Cape Blanco, the wind blows all the time. These guys were
flying radio-controlled gliders. They were accelerating
on the updrafts along the cliffs. They said some people have gotten
these things up to speeds of 450 mph. There's a very nice
state park campground there. Close to the lighthouse and beach.
I went a little crazy taking pictures of the Cape Blanco light house.
It really looked different each time I walked up there.
This guy was wearing the authentic outfit of the
lighthouse keeper from a hundred years ago.
More spirals. Like a chambered nautilus.
And giant prisms.
and, of course, this:
