Today we slept in until eight, made some coffee and then wandered out to the succulent gardens. They had a nice selection of things and Barb bought five plants and some potting soil. Succulents require some special dirt! Here is a picture of some of the grounds:
The owner was a friendly gal and we chatted a bit. Interestingly a lot of the businesses up here are cash only. Not sure why, maybe don't want to share a couple of percent with the banks. But we have been to the ATM a couple of times. Here are a couple more of the interesting plants they have:
Then we went down to the Point Cabrillo light house. There was a mile walk from the parking lot. We'd been here before. We'd had a vacation in Mendocino and came up to see the light house. Not sure when that was. Our memories are getting fuzzy. It's a cute building and they have some houses you can rent if you want to vacation there.
There are some coves that border the light house and some of the seals or sea lions were playing in the water. Kind of rare as they seem to just lie on the beach for the most part.
The ocean beyond the light house has some quasi-islands, probably underwater in high tide. Here is one view, count the sea lions!
Then we returned back to Fort Bragg and spent some time on the lookouts by the town. It was windy with some spray in the air, but you got a different view of what the coast looks like:
We ate our stores for lunch and dinner. Barb threatens clam chowder for dinner tomorrow. It was a bit cooler today and we did get some sun as we played a couple of games of backgammon on the picnic table.
We might go into Mendocino tomorrow. Any rush of tourist might be lessened by then.
I think that is about it. Barb is doing a bit of watercolor painting with some success, but perhaps more questions than answers being produced. It's all good!
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