June 27, 2013

Cape Blanco State Park

 

We had the afternoon shift at the lighthouse.   It’s strange but the trend has been that we get more visitors when it is rainy, windy and foggy.  Today was really nice.  The sun was poking through the clouds and it was warm with gentle gust of wind.   And we were slammed with non-stop tours. 

Quite a few of the tours included teens.  Some exhibit body language (arms crossed or attention tuned to their hand-held device) that shows me they couldn’t care less about what I had to say leading me to believe they were “dragged” to the lighthouse.  Other teens ask me questions and actually look through some of the logs on exhibit in the Work Room. 

I was surprised when the host in the Greeting Center called up to say that our last tour of the day was on their way up.  The time had really “flown” by.

Back home, the weather was so pleasant that Monte and I sat outside for a while doing one of our new favorite pastimes--watching the hummingbirds come and go to the feeder we set up.

June 26, 2013

Cape Blanco State Park

Today is our last day off until we move over to Humbug on Sunday. 

 We decided to do a long hike. 

We had to walk a mile just to get to the trailhead.

 

 

 

 

 

Plants (or weeds) on the trail-They all look beautiful to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really like mushrooms and wish I knew more about them and which ones are safe to eat.

 

 

One of my pet peeves is finding garbage on the trail-

Once on the trail to the Hughes House we came upon a fork in the road-one leading towards the Hughes House and the other to a viewpoint.  We chose to go towards the Hughes House. 

 

 Some parts of the trail had us wishing we had a machete because the vines were very thick. 

I’m guessing the trail is not used too often.

 

 

  

Monte started down first and just as he was warning me to be careful because the ground was slick

He slipped.

 

 

We came to a gate and had a choice of going up towards the Hughes House or going down towards the Sixes River.  We chose to go down.

 

 

We came to another gate leading to a beach trail and decided to take it and return home along the shore.

I took time to answer a phone call.

There was quite a difference in temperature by the shore.

We found the perfect log to sit on and eat our lunch.

Without sunlight, everything looked so gray and surreal.

But I saw beauty all around me! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Almost home-I'm tired but it had been a great hike!