December, 2015

I left Crescent City on December 1. I drove up to Cape Blanco State Park, since I was due there to start my winter camphosting position. The weather was so-so, not hard rain, but sprinkles here and there. The road (Highway 101) turns into a narrow two-lane road north of Crescent City and into Oregon.

Before I left Crescent City, I spent several days walking around the harbor and enjoying the ocean. The weather on those days was wonderful – not too cold, not too warm, sunny and enjoyable.

I saw sea lions, watched a dog playing and watched the waves from the pier.

There were a lot of places to visit, but I only went down to Redwoods National Park south of Crescent City. This is one of the places that I had applied to be a camphost, but I never heard back from them.

So, in Cape Blanco State Park since December 1. Since December 1, there are been a couple of days of no rain, and on days with rain there have been a couple of hours of no rain. In other words, I am growing mushrooms between my toes. Some of the rivers inland are flooding because of the constant rain.

I took some pictures on the day it didn’t rain, but I haven’t been able to repeat the effort, since there hasn’t been non-cloudy and non-rainy days since then.

All those trees surround the campground, so you can kind of see where the camp is.