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A garden fence at Fort Ross  
   

A garden fence at Fort Ross

From Sonoma County to San Francisco

September 20th 2008
September 16: We enjoyed two hikes further up the coast (even though, after flirting with us briefly, the sun pulled the covers up and went back to bed). One hike took us to the intersection of the San Andreas fault and the creek that comes out at Ft. Ross, settled in 1812 by Russians who came down from Alaska looking for sea otters (pelts) (which they hunted up and down the coast to extinction) a ... read more
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