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California Part 3: A Beach Walk and Back to Home

21 April 2024 • 1511 km / 939 mi (map)

Our time in California is over. This morning, I went for an early morning walk through Mendocino Headlands State Park.

Rugged, moss-topped rocky headlands and sea stacks flanking a calm cove of blue-green ocean water, with a small natural rock arch on the left promontory, under a clear blue morning sky at Mendocino Headlands State Park.
A rock arch formation in the ocean. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
A rugged rocky coastline under a clear blue sky, with sea stacks and cliffs rising from the ocean, including a natural arch in one of the offshore rocks. Waves break around the grass-topped headlands and haze softens the distant shore.
A rocky coastline with clear blue sky. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
A rugged rocky coastline at Mendocino Headlands State Park under a clear blue morning sky, with waves crashing white against dark craggy rocks in the foreground and a sunlit rock formation and small islands rising from the deep blue ocean in the distance.
A rocky coastline with waves crashing on rocks. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
Forces Larger Than Us · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
A rugged coastal rock outcrop with a large sea arch tunneled through its center, its flat grassy top dotted with clusters of nesting seabirds, surrounded by deep blue ocean under a clear sky.
A rocky ocean cliff with an arch. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
A narrow dirt footpath winds through a grassy coastal meadow dotted with small white wildflowers, with low morning mist drifting over the ground and a tree-covered ridge silhouetted in the hazy distance under a clear blue sky.
A grassy field with fog and trees in the background. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
A wide open coastal meadow of low grass and scrubby brush stretches under a vast clear blue sky, with a line of dark trees and a few low buildings along the horizon and a faint jet contrail high overhead.
A grassy field with trees in the background. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
A quiet two-lane road with a double yellow center line curves off to the right through grassy coastal headlands, with a low mist drifting across a wooded hillside dotted with windswept cypress trees under a clear blue morning sky.
A road with trees in fog in the background. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
A rugged coastline of dark rocky cliffs topped with green vegetation, where ocean waves crash white against jagged rocks and sea stacks under a clear deep-blue sky.
A rocky coast with waves crashing and a blue sky. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
Rays of morning sunlight stream through the misty canopy of large cypress trees, with a massive leaning trunk crossing the frame diagonally and bright green grass and fallen weathered logs on the ground below.
Sunlight shining through trees. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
A narrow dirt footpath winds through tall green coastal grasses along a bluff at Mendocino Headlands State Park, with the deep blue Pacific Ocean and a distant tree-lined headland under a clear blue sky.
A trail through a grassy field near the ocean coast. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California
Churn · Ocean waves crash onto a rocky coastline. · Mendocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California

It was a few hours back to the city and the airport. I had the window seat and got a nice view of the Three Sisters mountains in Oregon on our way home.

View from an airplane window of a gray wing with an upturned blue winglet, above a hazy blue sky and, far below, a cluster of snow-capped volcanic peaks rising over a forested landscape.
Three Sisters · Three snow-capped volcanic mountains seen beneath an airplane wing. · above Willamette National Forest, west of Bend, Oregon
Mendocino, California, to Poulsbo, Washington · 1511 km / 939 mi
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