John & Anne Wiley

2015/08/02

Ladder to Nuevo

About 3/4 mile South of a place gMaps calls China Ladder is this interesting shoreline with grooved flat rocks at the foot of the cliff, one of them ending in a sea cave.

4983 Groovy Foot

4983 Groovy Foot

To the right of center is a red “emblem” on the cliff, where rock has fallen away to reveal what’s apparently an iron deposit.

4978 Iron Emblem

4978 Iron Emblem

Just on the other side of China Ladder is this rocky cliff that to me looks a bit like some bizarre carved pumpkin.

4974 O'Lantern Cliffs

4974 O’Lantern Cliffs

Waddell Beach offers a picturesque wide strand with beautiful views up the canyon, punctuated by those white tracks in the water offshore.

4971 Waddell Beach

4971 Waddell Beach

This is a popular spot for kite & wind surfers to rip those white tracks, or at least it was on this particular day.

4967 Kite Surfers

4967 Kite & Wind Surfers

The whole Ano Nuevo area offers another kind of spectacular combining much of what we’ve seen so far, with a scrub dune inviting long walks.

4953 Ano Nuevo Bay

4953 Ano Nuevo Bay

Trails lead along this shore past Ano Nuevo Point to the more serene looking yet perhaps more wind blown Franklin Point.

4952 Rock and Sand

4952 Rock and Sand

With sandy beaches to the North and low carved rock to the South, Franklin Point offers a panoramic bench amid the hardy colorful scrub.

4948 Franklin Point

4948 Franklin Point

2015/08/01

Dairy to Davenport

Coast Dairies State Park offers some cool sea caves and a great beach, plus this pyramid of sorts.

5048 Pyramid

5048 Pyramid

Take a look at those people on the beach top-right for scale and you can see this thing is pretty big. There are two more people with light-colored shirts at the edge of the pyramid’s shadow, so I guess they ran across the narrow sand patch between waves and are confident the tide’s not coming in. Here’s a look from the other side offering a better view of that big cave up far enough that you can imagine how many storms have waves big enough to reach and carve it.

5044 High Sea Cave

5044 High Sea Cave

Dividing two big sandy beaches here is this narrow rock point with a well-worn path on top.

5043 Red Point

5043 Red Point

Continuing up the coast there are of course countless more sea caves, but this is one of the larger ones and has the added feature of another spire at water’s edge where a few brave souls probably climb it at low tide.

5020 Cave & Spire

5020 Cave & Spire

After yet more fascinating shoreline we come to the sweet little town of Davenport.

5017 Davenport, CA

5017 Davenport, CA

That cement plant at the left is somewhat of a marker for this last pic for today, with cool sea caves. Actually I guess they’re sea tunnels since they poke right through.

5005 Sea Tunnels

5005 Sea Tunnels

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