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Back to the coast
Midday temp: 17C
We drove only a short distance before our first stop, the town of Eureka. Eureka was established in the mid 1800s, first as a gold rush town, then a logging and milling town. There still is a huge lumber mill here but there is also an Old Town district, a section of buildings and homes that are more than a hundred years old. We walked for a short while in this older area. Being a Sunday morning it was very quiet. Our main purpose for stopping was ...
Dum Dum Tom Tom
... the cage stopped her movements. After a quick walk around the park which took us 30 minutes we were invited to pet some of the cubs. There were only 3 more people in the park. We petted a cougar cub, bobcat cub and a bear cub. The bear cub's fur was so soft and really you could cuddle it forever.
Soon we were back on the Pacific Ocean enjoying the spectacular scenery. Along the route we were treated to beautiful works of nature ...
Coastal catastrophe
... navigator. "The map makes it look about 12 miles away."
The mystery was quickly resolved, as we steered our little Egg onto the windiest, most hair-pinned road I have ever seen. I crept around each corner, and slid off to the side whenever a car came up behind me. Had anyone coming in the opposite direction slipped even a foot across the dividing line, we both would have gone tumbling down steep hillsides in a fiery blaze. These were quite ...
Northern Cal Coast.
... avoided as much as possible when sight seeing), We took a detour off the freeway, through Ferndale, a completely original Victorian town. It was fabulous. Pretty much everything was from that era, and it was just a normal town, not restored for tourism, just well maintained by the residents, and obviously lucky enough to avoid any fires.(The scourge of old wooden towns). Best of all, it was in a rich fertile valley, surrounded in old & still working Dairy Farms, so ...
Had a great day!!!
... beach glass
She ends up in BEACH GLASS HEAVEN
She picks till she can't fill anymore pockets...
The only other thing that would make this day complete is Dinner ...