Having driven the length of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard (house numbers go up to the tens of thousands!) we arrived at Point Reyes beach. Amazingly this public beach is a popular hauling out place for elephant seals.
Not the most beautiful of God's creatures - homely at best - but apparently they can dive to 5,000 feet and stay under for two hours. Not agile on land though! This one could only move about 2 metres and then had to rest.
This is a group containing a male, a female and a pup, not a family apparently according to one of the 'docents' (guides to us Brits). The pup is lovely!
This is another beach further round the coast which is covered with them. Sadly the overlook point was downwind and you could tell!
This is Point Reyes lighthouse at the bottom of 300 steps (which only one of us did....). It's not at the top of the cliff to avoid being obscured by fog which often forms higher up. But to be on the safe side the US Coastguard leave the foghorn sounding periodically all the time. It was the same at Alcatraz, despite it being a beautifully clear day with several miles visibility.
Slight mishap when Jeanne was pointing out an historic ranch and drove over a ditch dislodging a wheel trim! We recovered it on the way back and David put it back on thank goodness.
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