SeaRanch

We drove from Arcata to Sea Ranch for our final leg.

While mostly uneventful, The stretch from Hwy 101 around Leggett along Hwy 1 to the coast, took us through the mountains. This stretch was twisty and windy and we had lots of sharp slow corners. We really counted the every single mile till we were done with that stretch.

Once along the coast, we made good time. Memories of Ft Bragg, Skunk Train and past visits to this part of California were fresh in our minds. We though stopping by Glass Beach would be a fun event for the Kids. Biy were we surprised. Glass beach is no more. All the glass that used to be there has been carted away by the handfull by people collecting the sea glass, despite all the posted signs. That was quite the let down.

We walked around the beach anyways, and took in what we could of a still pretty packed beach on a overcast day.

Purni Drove the final stretch to Sea Ranch, where we had local Pizza for Dinner.

We only had a couple of days in Sea Ranch. We had booked this at the last minute as an alternate to our planned stop in Clear Lake, where the water levels were so low, that the owner of the rental had encouraged us to Cancel. This house was a definite upgrade to those plans.

We were all pretty tired from being on the Road for 2+ weeks, so we were content to stay home, Play Risk, and take short walks nearby without much driving, so thats what we did for our 2 days there, before we packed up and headed home.

I did manage to capture some nice Night Sky shots, since a) Sea Ranch has truly dark skies, and b) we lucked out and had a night without fog or the moon. We couldnt really have predicted this, so I did the best I could with my limited knowledge of night sky photography.

Enjoy

Tejas wanted to write a brief section for this part of our trip, so here is his contribution.

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In early August, and pretty much all summer, people expect hot, hot sun. Well, in the Pacific coast of the U.S.,That isn’t exactly true. The rain was pelting and the mood in our mom’s Honda Odyssey wasn’t exactly cheerful. We were all bored and cold and we all needed some excitement. Thankfully, Mom brought up the mood by announcing that we would be visiting Glass Beach, a beach filled with sea glass that floods in in low tide, a beach in Fort Bragg, and my family agreed that it had barely enough glass to be deemed glass beach, and I made an equation to address the case: one person + beach + glass = a beach 13.7% glass, 86.3% sand.

Please note that extra credit must go to:
Tejas K. Siddarth
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Sincerely,
Jeeves Brocklehurst, editor