Blogs from Point Reyes National Seashore, California, United States, North America

March 14th 2019. After a couple of weekends doing other things, Tom and I were back on the road traveling again. At 5.30 we set off for Point Reyes. No breakfast blog today as we ate at home. I have been making Sleepy Morning Oatmeal and have been having that instead of stopping somewhere. I got the recipe from my buddy Johnsie who runs the Pomaika’i (Lucky) Farm B on the Big Island. Since the clocks sprang forward, it was really dark when we set out and the sky did not lighten up until we reached San Francisco. The top of the Golden Gate Bridge was lost in fog and we did wander whether it would be the same on Point Reyes. Over the previous week the weather had been glorious with temperatures up in the ... read more

We got up packed, threw our backpacking gear in the car and headed two and a half hours to Point Reyes for our overnight backpacking trip. I had originally planned to do this trip over Mother's Day back in May, as my first backpacking trip with my daughter. But she ended up getting the flu- so that didn't happen. The next available permits weren't until October unfortunately. That being said, I've decided October is an awesome time to backpack in this area. The weather is super mild. On our way there, we started hearing reports of a massive fire in Napa and Sonoma. We were headed in that general direction so I did some quick research on my phone. Yup- the whole Valley was on fire and massive evacuations had started in the middle of the ... read more

Geo: 38.055, -122.88I absolutely loved sleeping to the sound of waves. People pay hundreds of dollars to sleep in hotels with waves crashing outside their rooms all night. This was so much more amazing, private and cheap. I slept like a rock, too.The next morning we crawled out of our tents and made coffee. I had found some "coffee in a pouch" at Trader Joes- you literally just add water to it and let it sit for a few minutes. Works for me! I headed to the cliff balcony, and enjoyed the best cup of coffee I've ever had. I just sat there, thinking about how amazingly beautiful this spot was, sipping on my coffee and taking pictures. I could come back here again and again just to sit, think and watch the waves crash. =)Eventually ... read more

On Thursday we drove towards Point Reyes National Seashore. The roads provided adventurous rides and they included some of the tightest hairpin turns through spectacular countryside. We passed through the town of Inverness home to artists and artisans on our way. As we entered the National Seashore we passed by historic cattle ranches dating from 1859 and views of a vast countryside looking out over the ocean.We saw many low-flying hawks riding the thermals as well as deer grazing on local ground cover. We headed back to our place for the night in Petaluma - the charming Metro Hotel a shabby chic study in all things French. Petaluma is full of delightful gingerbread Victorian houses and warehouse buildings that are seeing new life as bars and restaurants. On Friday we headed down US1 toward SanFrancisco and ... read more

I stood at the boundary of two of the Earth's major tectonic plate boundaries straddling the San Andreas Fault on the west coast of North America and the eastern Pacific Ocean. We went to the Point Reyes National Seashore for the week-end primarily to see the sea, the beach, the birds and the fault. We drove to a location about 30 miles north of San Francisco, but if we were to return 30 million years from now we could ride our bicycles on a lazy afternoon between San Francisco and Los Angeles. We stayed in the tiny town of Inverness, which is situated on the Pacific Tectonic Plate but looks east over the Tomales Bay, a long inlet from the ocean that doesn't look unlike a Scottish Loch. The Tomales Bay is the rift zone between ... read more