Sunday, March 06, 2011

Skunk Train Day

We rode the skunk train today.  If you want to know why it is called that you can find the answer here:

 http://gocalifornia.about.com/od/camendocino/a/skunk-train.htm

The total ride took about 3.5 hours and went through remote redwood forest East of Ft Bragg.  The only way to get to the area  we were in was by train yet there are people living there really living off he grid in small widely separated cabins along the train route.

Here are some pictures from the trip.

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Junior Conductor Nathaniel

 

We ate lunch when we got back to Ft Bragg and then headed out to a state park just north of town.

It was cold, grey and very windy but we walked out on their boardwalk to the seal and whale viewing area.  We didn’t see any whales but there were several sea lions on the rocks there.

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This is what I saw

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Tomorrow we wake up, check the weather and then decide what we do. Top on the list is the botanical gardens.

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