Campsite Ambiance

MaryAnne

Gerstle Cove

tangled in kelp

View from nearly the top

Ancient door hardware.

Reminiscent of a conquistador's helmet.

Stillwater Cove

bobbing kelp heads

Tafoni sandstone forrmation mark the shoreline

really strange rock formation we found

Forging our way through kelp was like paddling on carpet.

free of kelp, we travel northward

Maryann finds Hillbilly Park, "home of the rednecked phalarope" in Point Arena

handhold

Point Arena, the closest point on the U. S. mainland to Hawaii.

Looking down

Cisterns

Kim

camp host

Stillwater Cove day #2

Limber

There's horseshoe pits thar, too.

A view northward from high atop the lighthouse.

A nearly perfect golden mean.

The San Andreas fault

Maryanne's $3 goggles

Strange rock formation?

Timber Cove totem

nah, kelp again.

I toured the lighthouse

Looking UP

The last flight of stairs to the top.

Bug eyes of the fresnel lens, no longer in use and on display in the museum below.