We spent a day in Fort Bragg and had a lot of fun! The weather was great and the beaches were beautiful! We went to two different beaches. The first beach had a nice boardwalk and tide pools for exploring. We showed Tanner little crabs and tried to get him to poke a sea anemone with us, he poked one and it sprayed water at him. I don't think he liked that very much.
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Tanner on the boardwalk. |
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Andy showing Tanner a sea creature. |
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More exploration. |
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Andy, Trent, & Tanner. |
The next beach we went to was called Glass Beach. Back in the day a dump site was located where the beach now is. Clean up efforts have been made for many years to preserve the tide flats. There is a lot of old rusty metal along the tide pools and things like sea anemones have a hard time surviving and the watery takes on a rusty hue. The old dump site though is where all of the glass comes from that makes the beach beautiful!
We really enjoyed looking at all of the beautiful glass!
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Glass Beach. |
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Glass! |
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Tanner and Kirsten. |
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Trent. |
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Me, Tanner, & Andy. |
We spent the evening playing mini golf with the crew (Trent, Kirsten, Tanner, Andy, & me) and had a blast! We'll just say we had to get some more balls, ours ended up in the water and flying over the fence. Opps!
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Kirsten and Tanner. |
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He knows where the ball is supposed to go. |
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Trent. |
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Trent. Andy is cheating in the background. |
I wish we had another day or two to spend in Fort Bragg. I guess that means we will have to make a trip down there sometime in the future.
On our drive home we stumbled across Paul Bunyan and Babe the Big Blue Ox. Some reason I seem to recall seeing these guys when I was younger...
Farewell California! You were good to us!