Monday, September 5, 2011

POINT REYES HIKE

YESTERDAY I WENT TO POINT REYES TO HIKE THE BEAR VALLEY TRAIL. IT TOOK ABOUT FOUR HOURS TO HIKE. I PAUSED AT MANY TIMES TO VIEW THE VEGETATION AND TO TALK TO SOME PEOPLE. THERE WERE SOME CHINESE STUDENTS, HISPANICS, PEOPLE FROM SACRAMENTO AND NAPA. IT WAS SO COOL IN TEMPERATURE THAT IT WAS SO INVIGORATING. I MET A LADY WHO HAS PEOPLE ANALYZE THEIR DREAMS. WE CHATTED AND HIKED. WE NOTICED A RACCOON BY AN OLD BAY TREE. THERE WERE SEVERAL VARIETIES OF SAGEBRUSH. THE EIGHT MILE HIKE HAS NO WATER FOR DRINKING. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAD BACKPACKED AND WENT CAMPING OVER NIGHT. APPARENTLY THEY HAVE WATER AT THE CAMPGROUNDS. IT REALLY WAS NOT THAT CROWDED. I NOTICED THE OAK TREES THERE HAD ACORNS, AND OURS IN SONOMA COUNTY DON'T! THEIR WERE HORSE DROPPING. I ALSO SAW A GREY EGRET..

ONCE I GOT TO THE ARCHES ROCK IT WAS A PARTIALLY CLEAR VIEW TO POINT REYES LIGHTHOUSE. I FELT THE MOVEMENT OF THE TIDES COMING INTO AND UNDERNEATH THIS ROCK WHICH IS AN ARCH. I SAW MUCH MIDDEN SOIL. THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE WAS ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, AND MY FAMILY BIKED HERE, THEN HIKED TO THE ARCH ROCK AND WENT UNDERNEATH THE ROCK. THIS WEEKEND THE TIDES WERE VERY STRONG. I HAD A GOOD TIME MEETING NEW PEOPLE AND SEEING A COOL HIKE.

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