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| "Disappointing" sunset, Mendocino - November 5th 2014 |
NOVEMBER 06Well, the sunset may have been slightly disappointing as the sea fog rolled in across the Mendocino Coast, but the sunrise the next morning was well worth us both getting up early for.
For about an hour, both before and after the sun finally came up, we both walked around gazing in wonder at what the combination of light, cloud and low-lying mist was doing to the landscape as we clicked our shutters feverishly and disturbed the birds and wildlife busily getting on with their daily routine amongst the early morning joggers, dog-walkers, and newspaper deliveries.
Then we, perhaps slightly reluctantly, returned to the hotel and had another truly excellent breakfast in our room, before packing up the car and bidding a long farewell to our hosts, and, after a very useful stop at the local Gas Station, the beautiful little town of Mendocino itself.
We do hope to return again one day. In fact, we think that we'd really like to spend an entire trip discovering the entire northern Californian coast one day, given that this was as far north as we were going to get on this trip, and other, warmer and far more southerly locations were calling out to us.
That said, we were only about ten minutes down the road when we got to another lovely spot and just had to pull up the car and spend a happy twenty minutes or so looking at the birds and the views to be seen at a place called "Little River".
Yes, Mendocino County, if the fates are prepared to allow it, we may very well be back some day.
I'm really enjoying your holiday diary and the wonderful pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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