Thursday, November 9, 2017

AWESOME OCEAN.

Day 60 – Rob got up at 7 a.m.; I got up at 8:15. Our first night here went fine. A small camper on a pick-up truck came in during the night & quietly camped by the Lagoon. Except for us, no one else was here. Yesterday afternoon we almost had an RV larger than ours, towing a car, park next to us, but evidently they couldn’t fit in because after several attempts, they left. Oh darn. We paid for another day & seeing that the weather forecast had changed & rather than all-day rain, it wouldn’t be starting up again until the afternoon, we figured we’d see if Trinidad had really changed much & left to do some sight-seeing.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

YAAA! THANK YOU FRIENDS & FAMILY FOR YOUR DILIGENCE & HARD WORK THIS ELECTION!

Day 59 – We got up at 7 a.m. & 7:30, Rob then me.  52 degrees, windy, raining.  The short stretch of sunny days is behind us. We’re not going to Patrick’s Point State Park; Rob decided this morning that we’d give the small Big Lagoon Beach & County Park a try. It was $33 with the senior discount, the same as Patrick’s Point, but there were at least electricity & water for that price.

35 miles

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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Day 58 – We got up at 7:45 a.m., 39 degrees, sunny.  It’s supposed to cloud up later today & rain for several days beginning tomorrow morning. We decided to go back to the trails off the scenic Drury Parkway this morning while the sun was still out. Before leaving, Rob took a couple of pictures of the birds at this campground.

The Birds! Klamath Camper Corral, Klamath, CA

Pine Siskin, Klamath Camper Corral, Klamath, CA

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Monday, November 6, 2017

THOSE TREES!  THOSE ELK!   OH MY.

Day 57 – Beginning of Week 9. Rob got up at 7 a.m. & I got up around 7:45. It was 39 degrees & sunny when he got up. We’re going to take advantage of every non-rainy day that we have. Today we’re driving south to explore between Klamath and Orick. We were told about a very nice scenic highway through the redwood groves with lots of hiking trails & some prairie land where Roosevelt Elk are frequently seen grazing. Sounds like a good day.

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Sunday, November 5, 2017

HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN.

Day 56 – We were up at 7:20 a.m.  It rained during the night. 40 degrees this morning, light rain. We’ll probably be staying inside today, catching up on things, and doing more laundry. There’s a nice little laundry room at this campground, very clean, 3 washers & 4 dryers. Since we have full hook-ups here, the kitties are happily ensconced on their electric heating pads. We’ll be here for a couple more days; we’re waiting for several items to arrive from an Amazon order – replacements for a couple of things we blew out at Panther Flat due to an improperly working inverter – our blender & our water-pik. Then when we’re camping further south in a bigger city, we’ll be replacing the problem inverter.

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Saturday, November 4, 2017

HELLO SUNSHINE!

Day 55 – We got up around 7 a.m., foggy, 38 degrees. The fog rapidly burned off & there was bright sunlight, no clouds. We’ve entered the rainy season for coastal northern CA (November thru April), and we’ve heard that it can rain everyday. We’ll take the sun when we can get it, and do our exploring & most of the picture-taking then. Soon enough we’ll be south where they can’t get enough rain, if any!

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Friday, November 3, 2017

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VIRGINIA/MOM!  WE HOPE YOU HAD A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY DINNER!  SEE YOU IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS.

Day 54 – It rained all day today and it was 35 degrees this morning when we got up. It had rained a lot during the night & the ground was already soaked this morning. We’re right by the Klamath River which floods often. Initially it had looked like it was going to rain for six days straight, but now the weather forecast has it stopped tonight thru Saturday and not starting up again until Sunday morning. This campground is on acres of grass, very park-like, but we don’t want to get stuck in mud and puddles if it rains too much. The owner said if the River rises too much, he will ask us to move to higher ground.

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Thursday, November 2, 2017

Day 53 – We got up 7:30; 45 degrees, cloudy & foggy. Lots of rain was coming, & we had our coffee & got ready to depart for our next campground.  The girls seemed a little confused; they’d gotten used to relaxing & lying around. They sensed with our activity that they’d soon be on the road again. We’re going to Klamath, 40 miles south & west of here, near the coast & the redwood trees.

40 miles

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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

3 PONDS & SALMON??

Day 52 – 39 degrees & foggy this morning. One more day of exploring & then we must leave; gotta find a dump station somewhere. (We now know we can make it at least six nights without dumping, something we needed to know before future BLM camping in the desert.)  Some heavy rain is coming this way beginning early tomorrow a.m.  So today we’ll wait till the sun burns the fog off, pay our $7.50 for tonight, and head out to find three ponds.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

BOO! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Day 51 – It was 42 degrees today & foggy when we got up. We waited until the fog lifted around 10 a.m. before leaving for a day of birding. We followed the directions in the “Oregon Coast Birding Trail” booklet; the end included a section on the California Redwoods Birding Trail. We headed northwest to the coast near Smith River, going first to Alexandre EcoDairy Farm, a lovely stretch of farmland and pasture with gravel roads and a pond. According to the Guide, a small herd of American Bison roam the fields. Oh, Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam………never mind, we didn’t see any.

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