Morning along the Klamath River

It's early Thursday morning and a great time to do a little blogging. Our mornings have fallen into a pattern not much different from when we were home.  Paul gets up early, makes the coffee, takes Fossie out for a walk while I get the pillows all in a corner of our bedroom ready for my morning coffee.  Then PK sits in his driver's seat (turned in towards the living room).  I get the big laptop, he uses the iPad and we are set for an hour or so…as long as we have internet.  Guess what happens here at some campsites is they get a certain amount of service, so many GB, and it is shared throughout the park so if too many people are using at the same time, the service is much weaker.

Today we'll go south a little ways south to the Elk Reserve and then along the coast for  a walk.  It's been nice to have the cooler weather, we can leave Foster here in the MH while we go out, dogs can't go on trails. We did take a wonderful loop walk along a lagoon and out to the sea

By mid afternoon it was so warm and beautiful. I wanted to go further but Paul doesn't have good walking shoes and sandals aren't the best for hiking so we did a shorter version, but so pretty.

          

Yesterday we made the stupid mistake of actually stopping at the Trees of Mystery…tourist trap! We have passed this place for years and never stopped but we had nothing pressing us this time, so in we went. With senior discount it was only $10 so we figured not too bad, we'd give it a try.  Well, after being in gorgeous forests these last weeks, this left a little to be desired.  Basically they named unusual shaped trees…the candelabra tree, the elephant tree, the cathedral tree, the family tree etc. Guess most of the folks going through must not ever take a real walk in the real woods cuz they thought it was pretty amazing…go figure.  Talking speakers along the way, so hokey. But the entrance price included the gondola ride to the top of a peak so we were seeing the trees from the top down rather than looking up.

From there we could see from the ocean to the farthest peaks and with binoculars we saw and osprey atop a tree snag in the distance. You could see where logging had taken out this area 60 years ago and has been reforested.  Another part of the place that we really enjoyed was the Indian Museum with a very large collection of indian baskets, clothing, pottery from all parts of the country, so interesting to see such a extensive collection from all different tribes.  That was free…we should have just spent more time in it rather than the tree thing. So, all in all, not so bad and another reminder that if it looks like a tourist trap it most likely is exactly that!

From there we went on up to Crescent City for groceries, cell service and internet…OMG…even after just 10 days with limited service, to be in a Starbuck's with full speed internet was so addicting.  We sat for 2 hours playing on the computers while Paul drank a small cappuccino. On the way back we saw cars stopped not the roadway which means only one thing up here…ELK SIGHTING!

This time the herd was all around the yard of a beautiful private home set in a meadow. They are beautiful animals to watch, and I am kinda partial to them now, so we watched for a few minutes and drove on.   When we got back home again, made our 2nd berry pie, warmed up some leftovers and had our campfire.

We wanted to watch a Modern Family episode but not enough service to run it on the computer, so shut everything off and went to bed. We are in such a secluded area when we turn off the lights it's totally dark other than the stars peeking through the branches. We'll miss this wonderfully private campsite when we move north tomorrow...but guess there are so many out there yet to be discovered.