Since all my classes were canceled on Wednesday, I canceled work, and we headed off early in the morning up the 101 for the next 5 or 6 hours. I must admit, it's an... interesting drive on the way up towards Mendocino County/Humbolt.
The most exciting thing was this restaurant:
They have Pho, Dim Sum, and Sushi all in one! Who wouldn't be excited?!
We definitely passed by a lot of really odd things, but didn't really have the time to stop by and see them. There was an add for a freaky looking gondola ride over the forests, some cool Native American towns with craft stores, the "actual tree house," the drive-through tree, and, of course, "Confusion Hill."
Past Redway, and towards the more mountainous, curvy areas, there was a ridiculous wall of fog that we ran up against.
We finally arrived at Shelter Cove!
Shelter Cove was a very small, little town. It's right along the coast, and near the south trailhead of the Lost Coast trail. It really didn't have much--no real grocery store, a few inns, a trailer park, a pizza shop, a diner, and an airstrip!
We stayed at Oceanfront Inn for the night. The manager was old and friendly, and had built the inn and moved from Sacramento about 15 years ago. He directed us towards the beach right in the back, so after dropping off all of our stuff, Mike and I headed out towards the beach. It was low tide, so we were able to go look at the tide pools!
Mike!
Me!
I'm so emo durrrr.
Waves are awesome:
This was pretty awesome because you got the whole... sunset, wave, and then wind blowing the top of the wave the other way thing going on.
Starfish!
There were patches of carpets of sea anemones.
Colorful sea anemones.
Touching them!
Starfish orgy.
Then, it became pretty dark, so we went back in and heated up Progresso chicken noodle soup in coffee cups in the microwave for dinner. Sleep came fairly early seeing as there was (a) nothing to do, (b) only 4 TV channels, (c) nothing to do, and (d) did I mention nothing to do?
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