Camping West Coast 2005 |
October 1 
October 1 8:06am
October 1 8:24am Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: gold bluffs beach campgroundKilldeer bouncing around.  Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: gold bluffs beach campgroundStaging area. |
 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: gold bluffs beach campgroundVery cooperative weather. Clear sunny skies, warm breezes. Perfect traveling weather. |
October 1 8:07am 
October 1 8:51am Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: gold bluffs beach campgroundPreparations.  Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: gold bluffs beach campgroundStaging area. |
October 1 8:58am | Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: davison road Seats removed, gear all packed in securely. |
| Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: davison road Maps and such. Smokey the bear magnet. Fjording. 4 streams. |
October 1 8:58pm 
October 1 9:49am | Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: fern canyon Seats removed, gear all packed in securely. Staring down Elk. Couldn't go further on the trail because of feeding time. |
| Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: fern canyon Rain delay |
October 1 9:55am
October 1 10:04am | Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: fern canyon Where you can find a large number of geometric shapes in this building complex. Sphere, cone, triangle, square, cylinder, cube. Jumping frogs. Looking for gold the entire way. Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: fern canyon |
 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: fern canyonMaps and such. Smokey the bear magnet. |
October 1 10:21am 
October 1 11:08am | Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: davison road Seats removed, gear all packed in securely. |
 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: elk meadow Very cooperative weather. Clear sunny skies, warm breezes. Perfect traveling weather. Roosevelt Elk Cervus elaphus |
October 1 11:12am 
October 1 11:14am| Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: elk meadow Seats removed, gear all packed in securely. |
| Redwood National Park: kuchel visitor center Very cooperative weather. Clear sunny skies, warm breezes. Perfect traveling weather. |
October 1 11:51am 
October 1 11:56am | Redwood National Park: kuchel visitor center Seats removed, gear all packed in securely. The rangers here made me feel bad because I hadn't seen banana slugs this entire trip. I did spend a half hour going through their books trying to figure out what bird I saw at the camp site. No luck, they weren't all that helpful. |
October 1 1:08pm | Fortuna Seats removed, gear all packed in securely. Eureka, Chin's Cafe, Good Chinese Food & Sandwiches |
Chevron Car #SE5 | Altadena Seats removed, gear all packed in securely. |
October 1 1:16pm| Fortuna Seats removed, gear all packed in securely. |
| Avenue of the Giants: drive thru tree Very cooperative weather. Clear sunny skies, warm breezes. Perfect traveling weather. Paid my $1.75 at the drive through window. Free souvenir postcard. |
October 1 2:17pm | Avenue of the Giants: drive thru tree Very cooperative weather. Clear sunny skies, warm breezes. Perfect traveling weather. Legget. |
October 1 2:18pm 
October 1 2:18pm | Avenue of the Giants: drive thru tree Seats removed, gear all packed in securely. Pepperwood, population 50. Hundreds of miles away, bumped into the couple with the baby that were at the camp site. |
| Interstate 880 Very cooperative weather. Clear sunny skies, warm breezes. Perfect traveling weather. Past the Manly Honda in Petaluma. 101. |
October 1 6:25pm 
October 2 12:33pm | Union City: oscar's house Seats removed, gear all packed in securely. |
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