I was walking to shore from surfing (luckily had boots on for the first time) And suddenly (in a foot of water) was surrounded by thousands of Small Creatures swooshing by my legs!!! They were all 1 - 3 inches across And i was freaking out
Miranda wouldn't believe me, we went back out and i told her there were thousands of crabs beneath our feet.. Just wait. . So we sat and waited, finally a wave with enough force to uncover them came, and bam, there's a thousand creatures! Now, my Wife, being the brilliant person that she is, Fisheries and Wildlife and all, surprised me when she claimed that they were baby TURTLES!!! I GOT SOOO EXCITED!! OMG this is the coolest EVER!!!! But after 10 minutes of staring at the creatures, she realized, what looked like Hind Legs paddling, Were Front Claw-PAddles and a Face rather than a butt-tail. . (Ugly things) Any way, I just found a page that shows them: BEACH CREATURES[ 2 comments ] ( 12 views )
Because of Labor Day Weekend, we sort of needed to find a place to hide out.. We found a road out into the National Forest again. There was a bit of a ditch in the road, so we took the bikes up and ended up find a very neat spot. We got the RV past the drain ditch in the road easily enough. So, another beautiful forest. After dinner we went for a 6 mile walk down the road further and met a hunter and his two goats (yes, I said goats). They were very cute and are apparently his pets/pack animals.
We went for a bike ride/hike today. Very pretty area. On the bike ride back a, probably hornet, ran into my cheek, apparently freaked out and decided to sting me. So it's a tiny swelled, but so long as I leave it alone it doesn't bother me.
I'll get pics of our little area before we leave. Some people cut down some relatively small trees up here not too terribly long ago, probably for fire wood. So there's still plenty of blocks of wood. Joe made a little fire pit for us and a bench. We're going to make dough boys over a fire tonight.
(no s'more materials though)-Miranda
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WooHooo! Our dirty little secret has been that Miranda hasn't stood up yet on the surfing ;). Well, We finally had some good clean surf, and she gotup twice for some nice real rides
Way To Go Girl We were being overrun with giant pelicans surrounding us, apparently, we were surfing above a school of fish. . . (Sharks?) ;)-Joe
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We went surfing today. Super nice waves! They were perfect! What a blast. At one point we were out a little ways waiting for waves and a gull flew up to us and basically hovered just two or three feet away. Super weird. Then later I saw something dark up a head in a wave and realized it was a seal. The seal popped its head up a few times seeming to watch us and then we didn't see it again. We stayed out for a bit, but Joe needed to get out of the sun and we were both really worn out. So now we're hurting a bit, but we may head out again tomorrow morning before we have to leave here. The waves were too perfect to pass up.
-Miranda
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We biked south down 101 to see if we could find any place to park. We explored some, but nothing looked very promising. There is one possibility, but it's right off the highway and it would be maybe just for over labor day weekend... We ended up biking 20 miles yesterday.
Today we took our bikes into Newport which is a couple miles away and biked around town.
We also moved to a new campsite today which is right across the road from a beach access trail. So only about 1/4 mile to the beach now. That's not quite as bad. We'll probably go surfing tomorrow.
-Miranda
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