Saturday, June 15, 2013

A Few Days in Crescent City, CA...

Across from the backside of the Crescent City's Visitor Center is a public pool, and these beautiful mosaics were on the side of the building.




 Was walking through Walmart and saw this:  a Toilet Tattoo....  lol.  You stick it onto the lid :)


It was very, very windy here for most of the time I was here.  Too windy for my kite.  Pictures of the coast, the Battery Point Lighthouse, and other various things I came across...





This lighthouse is now electronically maintained and begins just before sunset.  There is a caretaker that lives in the house now.

 









Mural across from Walmart...





This area is called Pebble Beach.  I saw some sea urchins and starfish in the little pools...


My last evening in town, I did what I wanted to make sure I did NOT do at any time on my trip!  

One of my Survival Rules is to make myself look down in my hand to make sure I have my keys, BEFORE I begin to slam the locked door.  I've been doing really good.  One time I locked the keys inside in Florence when I went to take some pictures of the sunset.  Lucky for me that time, my side door was unlocked and it was not a problem.  So I am headed into Safeway, and I've got my purse in one hand and my glasses and phone in the other, and I slammed the door.  Then I thought, "oh stink!  I locked my keys in the van!"  

I decided not to panic, or to worry about it just at that moment and went into the store.  I got what I needed and was heading back toward the van when I was almost run over by a white car coming across the parking spots.  It stopped just in front of me and I looked at the driver, and I said....

"Joey!  What are you doing here!?"

J. backed up and parked his car, got out and gave me a hug.  He is one of the kids from our hometown that grew up with my kids!  He said, "I was feeling so homesick, I was hoping I would run into someone from home!"  It felt good to be someone's blessing.  We talked for about an hour.  He asked me where I was headed, and I told him I had just locked the keys in the van and was going to figure out what to do.  He followed me over, and was willing to crawl under to see if the spare key that my oldest son hid four years ago was still there.  I can't believe he was able to find it, and that it hadn't fallen off a long time ago.  Again, Thank you Jesus!

J. invited me to come over for coffee in the morning and to meet his sweetie, K.. Then I went geocaching, picked up two more, and saw this mural on a motel...



The next morning I took J. up on his earlier invitation.  I enjoyed the coffee and the company.  When I get back to L-town, I am going to stop by his mom's and let her know I think they are doing just great!


From there I went to have lunch at Fisherman's by the harbor, then drove around to watch the ongoing rebuilding of the harbor from the Japanese Tsunami in March 2012.  This is part of what the harbor looked like after the tsunami hit...




Then I went to see the seals...


and watched the waves at the beach south of town.  I took several deep breaths of the sweet ocean air...


and headed toward the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park...






Look how small my van looks compared these beautiful redwood trees...


Along the Smith River...







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