Memorial Day weekend. Part 1.

Jim arrived at 9 am and picked up Robert and I from Roberts place.

Click here for Google Route map. (It will open in a separate window. You will need to refer to it. No, there won't be a test at the end.)

We headed west along Woodside road up ino the mountains and turned right onto Kings Mountain Road. We climbed up the mountain and crossed Skyline Boulevard and went down Tunitas road.

We stopped approxmiately at B on the map and the first 50 photos are from this location. Including such delights as this Banana slug that I saw on the ground.



Robert and I being naughty by tresspassing ....


Here's a closeup of the sign, so you can see how naughty we were.


And Jim wringing his hands in despair at our naughtiness. ;)


And the Forest Troll we found.


And the trees were the usual tall Redwoods. Robert and Jim acting as height comparision.


We then drove down to the coast and parked at the San Gregorio State Beach, where this pleasant, laughing chap let us buy a ticket to park there.


We then walked up to the headland and took some photos and enjoyed the sea breezes. This is looking south.


And looking north.


Robert and Jim then guessed where Australia was.


We walked back down to the beach and explored some caves underneath the cliff.




We then headed inland up the Pescadero Creek rd and turned off at Alpine rd, and went to Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve.


So many things to watch out for !!




We found the California state flower, the Californian Poppy growing wild in the field.


This is looking back towards the Pacific, down the Pescadero Creek valley that we just drove up.


The bees are big and black with only one stripe.


Grass seeds stripped off the stalk.


We drove back to Skyline Boulevard and stopped at a Vista Point (Lookout) and looked back towards Redwood City.


We stopped at Alice's Restaurant, where Jim's ute looked slightly out of placed amongst the other cars.




After lunch, we stopped further down the road where you coulod see over both sides of the ridge.




We then drove onto the freeways and dropped Robert back at 18th Ave.

To be continued ....



Lots more photos here.