Jenner, CA to Trinidad, CA

Actually we’re just north of Trinidad at a little county park that I remembered from a trip this way four years ago.

We left the over priced plot of land where we were camped up river from Jenner, CA and made our way over to Hwy 101 for a day of driving north. We stopped in Ukiah, CA for gas and groceries mid-morning. And discovered a wonderful bakery and café on a side street. Schat’s got programmed into the GPS as a ‘favourite’.

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Hwy 101 takes you north pretty quickly as most of it is freeway that by-passes most towns. In some places where the highway has yet to be upgraded there appears to be local resistance. One community that Hwy 101 still goes through had signs saying: “Fix the bottleneck; nix the bypass.” And there was a bottleneck with bumper to bumper traffic. In another place where the highway switched from freeway to twisty road as it made its way through a grove of redwoods, there were signs to: “Save the Grove”. Before Eureka it goes through a redwood forest that is state park and you can get off the main road and travel what’s called ‘The Avenue of Giants’.

 

 

 

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We ended up stopping for the night at this little county park just north of Trinidad, CA. I remembered it from a trip this way four years ago. It’s a small, quiet campground with only one other site occupied last night. It’s on a little lagoon created by a huge sandbar that separates it from the Pacific Ocean. As I remember from the last time I was here, the sandbar is subject to huge surf which breaks very close to shore. Eliot and I took a walk to the beach before supper and I used a lot of digital ‘film’ trying to catch the surf at exactly the right moment. Made me wish I had a digital SLR so that I had more control over exposure and shutter speed. Still I had some luck catching the spray blowing back just as the waves were breaking.

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