Saturday, July 7, 2007

Reyes Point - Drake Bay

Spent the day driving down from Bodega Bay to San Fransisco taking time out to detour to the Reyes Peninsular. Very remote with some dramatic weather changes. One minute we were in 80 degree sun, 10 miles later the temperature is down to below 60 degrees with blowing winds and thick fog. We saw Tomales Bay where the San Andreas Fault (which we have been following) is flooded with water from the Pacific Ocean to form the bay. We enjoyed some warming clam chowder at Drake Bay (named after Francis Drake who landed there). Then headed back to Stintson beach which was very popular, sunny with golden beaches, and hundreds of surfers and surf bunnies. We also completed the drive to San Fransisco taking in some fantastic coastline and some crazy winding roads. Suddenly the narrow road ends and you are on a five lane freeway heading to the Golden Gate bridge which comes as a bit of a shock. The view on the bridge was obscured by the fog but hopefully we'll get some good photos over the next couple of days that we are here.

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