The Bay’s natural A/C was no match for the heat with days in the high nineties and moments over 100. The wicked heat wave plaguing the western US affected us here as well. I think the battery was about to die and I was rushing.Ĭouple weeks ago my friend Amy came down from Sacramento for a surfing lesson in Bolinas. Like the new Mac, still working along its learning curve. From atop a dune I watched them with binoculars, trying not to disturb them.įinally, a video I took with my new camera. There is a colony of seals that like to haul out on sandbars at the mouth. Maybe 50 yards form the true end of the spit I stopped. Tide was low so I walked across mud-flats, observed the holes in the mud from clams, I think. Once I got to the end of the spit (?two or so miles?) my curiosity got the best of me. Just started a book on the Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula to learn more. I don’t know much about this sort of dune environment. I think these are Sanderlings, scampering to and from the waterline looking for morsels.Ī peek over the dunes. My walk took me along the ocean’s edge all the way out.Īfter about a half mile past the parking lot I had he whole walk to myself except resident birds. Here, a pretty view of the spit and its dunes stretching towards Drakes Bay. Limantour spit is on another part of the peninsula. I’ve signed up for a beginning digital photography class in October and hope to learn how to better work with that. Also, the day was very cloudy and the colors look quite flat. Having a tough time getting panoramas large enough via this new Mac. The estero has four fingers and a fifth that curves along the spit (Estero de Limantour.) DBOC is at the top of Schooner Bay. A completed lease from the NPS started a long court case that may end their existence. The day started with an early lunch at Drakes Bay Oyster Company. The spit is barely discernable at the lower mouth of the estero. Drakes Estero forms the fingers of water at the top of Drakes Bay. Drakes Bay is the lovely, half-moon shaped crescent in the middle. Tomales Bay is the sliver of water that seperates it from the mainland. Tomales Point (written of in the linked post above) is the tippy top. Take a gander at a previous post of mine for info on its geological uniqueness. It’s not the sharpest but shows how it attaches to the mainland. Here’s a map I found on the National Park Service website that shows the shape of the Point Reyes Peninsula. Come to think of it, finding new places has a way of doing that for me. Needing a mood lifter, this romp into unexplored territory did the trick. Rehabbing an angry lower back the last couple months is like starting over condition-wise. Its other end, the point of the spit that meets the mouth of Drakes Estero, I’ve examined many a time through binoculars from Drake’s Beach. I’ve walked on Limantour Spit many times, explored the beach way down its south end at exceptionally minus tide to see some pretty cool rock formations. BTW: There’s a video of the end goal at the end of this post if you want to scroll past all.
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