Fort Bragg 7, Wednesday

This is/was our last full day in the area.  It's about 5 pm and we are going to get some Thai food for dinner. 

The camp site is bordered by pine trees that have no branches until they are 50 feet up or so.  The squirrels are gray and one of them is in the tree above the camper and he is busy chewing through pine cones and dropping debris on the top of the camper.  He is quite energetic and they are hitting every few seconds.  It's loud.  I wonder what a rain storm would sound like. 

I mentioned in the last post that we were going to Jug Handle Reserve today.  We'll, we went to the Botanical Gardens first.  They have a lot of property and have covered most of it with flowers and other growing things.  Had to wear a mask for the most part.  But the plants were quite nice.  They had a Dalia garden that was well in bloom.  Lots of pictures there as the flowers are quite colorful and graphic:

They have a lot of trails too that wind from the gift shop out to the headlands and back.  Then a succulent garden and store and nursery.  We spent a couple of hours there.  Then headed back to the camper for a spot of lunch and a rest.  Then we went to Jug Handle.  

We walked the headlands path and then down to the beach.  Sat around there for a bit and then came back for a quiet afternoon.  

They also have a section of the plateaus that produce the stunted trees.  It was about a 2.4 mile hike to get there and we didn't have the energy to look.  Maybe next time. 

There are a lot of critters in the campground.  A mother deer and her twins came by, the doves have been flocking around and filling the bushes and then that squirrel...  He came down in a near tree and squacked at me for a time from about 20 feet.  The rest of his time has been spent in the upper tree areas and dropping his refuse. 

The weather has been pretty much a consistent, cloudy 67 degrees and no rain and the occasional fog that drifts in and out. It's comfortable, though I've not been out of my heavy fleece the entire time we've been here. 

This is the beach from Jug Handle. 

Here is Barb in the dahlias. 

Another shot of the botanical garden areas.  Very nice and worth the price if you get up here. 

I think that is about it.  We will probably not do too much tomorrow.  I'll see If I have the motivation to write up some kind of summary when I get home.  In any case, I hope you all have enjoyed this brief look at this portion of the California coast.