12/20/11

Coast Camp, Point Reyes National Seashore

More winter camping! It's hard to get a spot at Coast Camp during the summer. Reservations are snatched up as soon as they become available. But I had the place to myself a week before Christmas.

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All camping at Point Reyes is remote. It's a two-mile hike to Coast Camp.

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I was about a mile in when I took this picture,

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after which, I slipped on the trail and fell, tearing my jeans and scraping my knees something awful. Sigh... But the show must go on.

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I didn't get close enough to see what these scavengers were eating, but it looks like a juvenile white shark!

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After setting up camp and tramping around for a couple hours, I settled in under a giant eucalyptus and waited for the sunset.

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I took these last pictures from my campsite, standing on the picnic table.

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It got quite cold overnight. I think my next camping gear acquisition should be a ski mask or something. Cold isn't the worst part about camping in winter in California tho', it's the long night. Bring your iPod and lots of things to read.

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I crossed paths with a coyote this morning. I thought he was looking at me when I took this picture. Darn it!

I crossed paths with a coyote this morning. I thought he was looking at me when I took this picture. Darn it!

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4 comments:

Christopher C. NC said...

Lovely as always and frosty too. You have the same varmints out there as I do, except I think the farmers may have taken out the coyotes. I think what I hear now are foxes.

Kaveh said...

What a great picture of the vultures with the shark. Definitely looks like a young great white or mako. I have a shot of vultures eating a harbor seal. I watched as they ate its eyes! Nature is gruesome but interesting.

chuck b. said...

yeah, it's probably a mako, huh? Still, neat!

Bonnie Story said...

Oh. My. Goodness... you have rocketed me back to Pt Reyes and my childhood!! So many unforgettable sights. This is just delicious. Wow!!!