There are some waves I've heard about just north of San Francisco. These are not exactly the kind of waves you can just drive up to, hop out of the car, suit up and be in the water within a minute or two. You have to do some hiking and bush whacking to get to them. A lot of time invested in the "getting there" without any guarantee of success. It is called paying dues.
I've been adventure deprived for the past couple of weeks. So when I got the opportunity for an all day hike today I decided to call up a friend and go "pay some dues".
Beautiful hike in and out of the fog and sun. Good to explore an area I had not been into before. Got down to the beach and reminded me a lot of the North Coast - all cobblestones and flotsum.
We found some interesting things on the beach. I started off finding a very cool hat. My buddy said, "you may want to keep that, those are expensive". That was enough to make me lash it to my backpack. My buddy also collected (3) wiffle balls - WTF? He says they are great to play with in the house with his son.
Probably the most interesting items we found were all the abalone shells strewn about the length of the beach. Quite a few of them and enough to make us take a mental note and possibly come back on some favorable tides.
Speaking of tides, we walked along the beach as far as we could before we got cut off by the cliffs. Rather than walk back the way we came we actually climbed up the bluff. One of those things you do in life and realize when you make it to the top how stupid it was that you did it.
And for those of you who have not stepped outside of late, Spring is beginning to make an appearance. The wild Iris were out in force - spectacular!
I want to see a picture of the hat! I was also am wondering if you were sore at all the next day?
ReplyDeleteOh, by the way, spring is NOT HERE. Enjoy it for us please. We won't see it for months!
ReplyDeleteJaim - Good to hear from you. I'm sure I'll have the hat in a future pic soon. It is a cool "baja style" straw hat. My buddy Jeff told me they were nice hats to have. And yes I was kinda sore. It was not too grueling but a little scary considering it was steep and really loose sand stone and soil - basically a gully wash that we climbed up. Fun but stoop'id!
ReplyDeleteI will soak up as much Spring for you all as I can!!!