Friday June 10, 11, 2022 Usal Creek, Lost Coast CA.
Ocean day
Today we planned to spend some time down at the beach at the ocean and maybe spend the night down there.
Beach
After getting it going we drove on down to this part of the beach but planned to drive a bit south to a beach that there weren’t so many people at coming and going.
We drove across the creek to this beach and parked. As we pulled in the sand got soft and we wondered if we’d get stuck getting out later.
Walk
Anyway we parked and went for a short walk down the beach to sit on a big log and enjoy the day.
This was our view of the ocean from the vans.
We walked down to the logs down there and sat for a spell taking it easy..
We made it back to our vans and decided not to camp here and headed back to the camp inland that we’d been using.
The sand wasn’t as soft as we thought and we both made it out of it and headed back to camp.
Ducks
Back at camp we heard some ducks in the creek. They were working their way up stream feeding along the way.
Mountain man fire
And that night we had a fire. Marty demo-ed how to start a fire without matches, the mountain man way. See the video clips for more on that.
He was successful and got a good fire going that we enjoyed.
Nice day.
Day 6, The Snarly Big Trees
Walk
Today I took Marty up the coastal trail that goes south along the ocean and starts near our camp on the road in.
Snarly trees
I only wanted to take him a hundred yards or so up the trail to show him the big snarly redwood trees that were up there. I’d discovered them a few days ago.
We continued on up the easy trail to these trees.
We discussed what we thought might have twisted these trees up as they usually grow pretty straight up.
Natures work
We walked on up into them and admired natures work while we rested up.
There’s more of all this in the video clips I published on the Usal trip.
Video Clips
My plan was to take some video clips to put together an edited video. But the problem was I wasn’t sure just how to present what is at Usal Creek and I wasn’t sure what to do.
I started out just taking some video clips to edit which I did. But when I went to edit them I could see they were better presented without editing. I thought things showed more on the real side. So I decided to not edit much out, unless it was a duplicate and leave in most of the bloopers as that’s how things really happened.
The Usal Creek Video of Clips
This is the video I made of the video clips and is of the whole trip so this will be repeated on the Usal blogs but the video is the same for them all.
Nice day.
