The old rock and the ill fortuned serpent
Morro Bay (Central Coast California) has a big rock, where evidently a hawk and a raven once destroyed a two-headed serpent-monster called Taliyekatapelta (say it aloud, I dare you) as…
Eight miles of mating seals
What happens when three pregnant seals land on a quiet beach? In 1991, three elephant seals landed at Pierdras Blancas, on the central coast of California, for the first time…
Texas, meet California
We woke up at our inn in Trinidad and shared breakfast with a Texas couple on their 30th anniversary visiting the redwoods to see the big trees (“we don’t have…
Eugene to Redwoods
Gone from Family and Eugene and off to California. We assumed Eugene used to be Old Growth country. Wrong. The Kalapuyan people used controlled burning to manage the area as…