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California Days 37-39: Point Cabrillo Light Station

24 April 2023 • 391 km / 243 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 24 April 2023
  • California 38

I spent the rest of the weekend in Mendocino and headed back to the Bay Area for a few days of meetings with the rest of my team.

A dusk sky over Mendocino, California, with mottled clouds glowing deep blue and a thin crescent moon and a bright star peeking through a break in the cloud cover. Below, silhouetted houses, trees, and parked cars are lit by scattered warm streetlights along a darkened street, with a pale band of fading light on the horizon.
Mendocino, California
Weathered, peeling white picket fence posts stand in tall dewy grass, with one plank leaning at an angle. Behind them, a dark red house with a gray gabled roof and a trimmed hedge is softened by overcast morning mist.
Mendocino, California
A trail forks into two paths on a green coastal headland under an overcast gray sky, with a wind-sculpted cypress tree and shrubs in the background and the foggy ocean barely visible beyond. Lush grass, wildflowers, and a clump of flowering plants fill the divide between the wide gravel path on the left and the narrow muddy path on the right.
Mendocino, California
A foggy meadow of green grass, brambles, and scattered white and pale purple wildflowers in the foreground, with a row of historic wood-frame buildings and houses in various colors — white, teal, and yellow — along the horizon under a heavy gray overcast sky. A church steeple and a large cypress tree are faintly visible in the misty distance to the right.
Mendocino, California

Yesterday (Sunday) was a foggy and rainy day, so I drove up to Point Cabrillo Light Station. I took the hiking trail out to the lighthouse and had to laugh at this sign. Good way to encourage people not to take the shortcut from that trail to the lighthouse!

Tick-Infested Area · Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park, north of Mendocino, California
Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park, north of Mendocino, California
A short white lighthouse with red-roofed keeper’s buildings and a wind-shaped cypress tree stand on a foggy grassy headland, while two bundled-up people walk along a fence line past a small red-roofed outbuilding.
Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park, north of Mendocino, California
A foggy coastal headland with a dirt footpath bordered by a rope-and-post fence winding through green grass toward rocky sea cliffs. A small white building with a bright red roof stands to the left, with more red-roofed houses and a line of dark trees fading into the mist in the distance.
Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park, north of Mendocino, California
A weathered wooden fence with broken and leaning rails winds through a windswept meadow of tall golden grass, fading into dense gray fog that obscures the horizon and softens distant cypress trees and shrubs.
Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park, north of Mendocino, California

Today (Monday), I drove back to the city. Only a few photos from along the way, but it was a fun and scenic route:

A curving two-lane road with double yellow center lines winds through a dense coastal forest of tall redwoods and evergreens, with morning sunbeams streaming through the misty trees.
east of Fort Bragg, California
Morning sun breaks over a stand of tall conifers and redwoods, with low fog drifting across a forested hillside and a grassy clearing dotted with small evergreens in the foreground.
east of Fort Bragg, California
Overgrown, disused railroad tracks in the foreground with orange California poppies growing between rusted rails and weathered wooden ties, leading to a green vineyard in early growth, oak trees, and rolling green hills under a clear blue sky.
Hopland, California
Hopland, California
Mendocino to San Jose, California · 391 km / 243 mi
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