Enter at your own risk =-) ??

This is what greated us before we got down on the sand itself. Pretty funny, actually, though the water was cold, the beach slope was steep and the sand was kinda rough (BIG sand as apposed to little sand - do'ya know what I mean?)
And apparently they'd had a shark attack up the beach a-piece a week or so earlier, so "you've been warned!"


Can yo smell the salt yet??


Can you hear the waves crashing?


This is what Heaven looks, smells and sounds like to me :~)


This is what coastal 'mountains' do -- just like in Oregon and Washington - keep the fog on the beach while the 'east-side' valleys stay a little warmer.


Trish's and Matt's house - there are 3 dormer windows - I stayed in the one in the middle, behind the trees (which are Crepe Myrtle, btw) 'his' and 'hers' cars - guess who drives the Jeep?

This is an OLD California dairy, on the coast! who knew?!? Trish says they're not the "happy" California cows in the commercials :-)

The oldest and the first one on Point Reyes Peninsula is "Historic A Ranch", closest to the Lighthouse. Following, then, are B, C, D (which we didn't see), E and so forth, all the way to Z ranch. According to the booklet I have, a wave of 'new' immigrants came in search of gold, in 1849, but instead they made their fortunes in giant wheels of cheese and butter for the growing city of San Francisco (which is to the near south of Point Reyes Peninsula). By 1919, many of the immigrant families were able to buy their land that they had worked so diligently.

This is the last of the "historic" ranches that we saw on our drive.

This was in a little town called Point Reyes Station. Gas was this expensive, though in Sacramento it's about the same that we pay in Vancouver/Portland, which averages around $3.67 or so.

This station was 'older than dirt' --- when I was a little girl, this "Flying A" also had a horse attached to the wings - like Pegasus.

This one's for you, Boni! Pelicans flying over the shoreline - lots of them :~)

ICE PLANT! I haven't seen this since I left California in 1972! It's juicy and it snaps when broken. Makes great ground cover, which is what Gg always used it for in big areas. It covers the slopes of the Lighthouse point.