November 25th Observations

Lovers and beggers.

Saving daddy from the incoming tide.

Recommended for twelve and under!

Contemplation and conversation.

West of West Street

I find it interesting how part of Fort Bragg, the part closest to the Pacific Ocean, is an alley beside the mill property fence just west of West Street. It runs three blocks from Pine Street to Spruce Street. It is a neglected and dismal part of the city.

Looking north.

It will be very interesting to see what happens to this area in the coming years now that the redwood era is over and "View" and "Location" become king.

Looking west.

The end of the Ten Mile track at the south end of the alley.

Looking south.

Oh Boy!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Thanksgiving Day Walk

A beautiful day for a walk. Crossing over the Pudding Creek Trestle my eye caught the pattern of footprints in the sand.

A coastal visitor contemplating?

An American Kestrel enjoying Thanksgiving lunch.

I don't know my ducks and mud hens.

A rock picker.

Seals in the sun.

Lake Cleone.

Heading home on the Haul Road.

Frosty Walk

It was a cool and frosty morning. Bed gravity was strong but I willed myself out of the sack and did my walk and, as always, I saw things and learned stuff!

For instance it is exactly 1.1 miles from the Headlands Coffeehouse to the center of the Pudding Creek Trestle when you walk west to Main Street, north to Elm Street, west to Glass Beach Drive and north to the Trestle.

If you rather drive there is parking at the North end of Glass Beach Drive just before the Trestle.
The sea was loud and the sunrise muted. An E. John Robinson moment.

A Black Shouldered Kite high above the Cypress.

This two point buck almost got away. Not because he was all that quick but because I had my camera on the wrong setting!!

Photoshop saved it!

Nice. Not Nice.

One of my faithful readers (my sister) sent me this Photoshopped photo she did from one of my photos of the Pudding Creek Trestle. Nice! Thanks Sis! It would make a great logo.

This morning I noticed this weather vane. I don't know why I never noticed it before! Anyway, I have added this to my Fort Bragg weather vane photo collection. Nice!

In the not nice department, I photographed this fence October 27th thinking it is one of the nicest looking fences I have seen in Fort Bragg.
Here it is this morning. I don't know why some people feel the urge to be destructive but I hope they grow up. I did.

Views from The Trestle

Early this morning I walked to the newly opened Pudding Creek Trestle. Using my GPSr I discovered it is exactly 1.25 miles from my house to the center of the trestle if I follow the sidewalks. It is 1.1 miles if I cut corners!! This photo is looking down and east from the middle of the trestle!

Here is the view looking west from the center of the trestle out the mouth of Pudding Creek. This was the first time I have been able to take photos from this location. I am sure millions of photos will be taken from the center of this trestle in the years to come by both birders and scenery buffs alike. It is really quite spectacular!

Looking south..., obviously other early morning bikers, hikers and dogs had crossed over before me; their tracks in the morning dew.

While on the trestle I met a woman walking her dog who told me when she was a young girl her father worked at the mill. She remembers when it was possible to drive across the trestle in a car but it was really quite scary because there were no guard rails and only a few planks for the tires to ride on. "I could lean out the window and see Pudding Creek straight down between the ties"!

On Sunday they would sometimes go for a drive out the haul road. She remembers her dad driving across the trestle while pointing out things in the distance, her mom hollering, "Watch where you're going"!!