Coast Trip with Shell

Shell and I had an opportunity to get away for a one day trip to the coast.  We went over to Fort Bragg/Mendocino area.  This is a picture of some flowers and fountain at the motel where we stayed.  We asked the receptionist at the motel what kind of weater they had been having and she said that it had been foggy off and on, but mostly foggy.  We were disappointed as we really wanted to see the ocean not a fog bank....

This is one of the first pictures I took of the ocean and you can see the fog, but also a promise of a little blue sky!

Next we headed to one of our favorite places - the Mendocino Headlands.  Shell and I were competing with each other to get the best picture of the largest waves -- I think Shell won, but I thought this was a beautiful picture of the coast as the weather cleared ...

Check out the blue sky in this picture - no "doctoring" here - these were the actual colors!

  I had remembered a beach that Gary had found that didn't cost money.  Russian Gulch (one of our favorite spots) charges $8 just to go and sit on the beach for the day and since we weren't going to be sitting for the entire day on the beach and wanted to see many of the sites, we decided this beach was just the thing!

Shell is in this picture walking toward the beach and looking for a great picture and a place to sit and enjoy the waves crashing on the rocks, or the surfer or all the beauties that surround us...

We sat on the beach and I took a million and one pictures trying to get a great pic of the waves -- will settle for this one.  It was such a beatuiful day!

We then took our 1/2 mile walk to the Point Cabrillo Lighthouse and here are a few pics of the lighthouse.  Inside the lighthouse they have a tv that monitors the light on the top to give you an idea of what it would look like closeup...

Love this lighthouse!

Picture of Shell as we finish our walk to the lighthouse and are closing out our short adventure at the coast.  Sad that it had to come to an end, but thankful we had such a beautiful day!  We also visited the bakery and the Mendocino Chocolate Factory - of course!

Our last stop was a glass gallery that had some beautiful glass work and these beautiful flowers right by the parking lot!

The end to a wonderful day at the coast with my daughter, Shell ~ Shell thanks for sharing this moment in time with me!