More Elk! I think this is my favorite of the elk photos I’ve taken:

Horny

A totally unrelated aside: I’ve been listening to an internet radio station called Radio Paradise. Y’all should check it out. Last three tunes? Leonard Cohen, The Pixies, Neil Young backed by Pearl Jam. OMG, I’m in heaven!

Anyways, after camping in the Redwoods at Elk Prairie, we moved on the next night to Patrick’s Point. Fabulously beautiful park, very severe coastal scenery. Really pretty mediocre campsite…non-functioning showers…lots of noisy neighbors…ah well. It was lovely just the same.

We watched the sunset from the seastack rock formation that is the “actual” Patrick’s Point:

Yet another Patrick's Point Sunset Photograph

It was summer then, but not only does it never exceed 65 degrees in that region, also seems like it’s always windy there…thus the level of clothing:

Stacy on Patrick's Point

During the night, we heard sea lions barking, so in the morning we went to try and find them. After bushwacking down to a cliff, we finally saw them….there they were, off the coast, hanging out on a rock outcropping. Just hanging out, barking. I guess that’s what you do if you’re a sea lion! They were still quite far away…this is the best I could do with my 300mm zoom.

Sea Lions

One final image from our hike through the redwoods. And of course, I’m thinking of my cousin Suzie as I post this, who has a PhD in bugs. ( ! ) Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe these critters are called Banana Slugs. By gawd they are huge! This one was not the largest specimen we saw, but he (she?) was nearly as long as the span of my thumb to pinky.

Banana Slug