After Thankgiving Thursday, we left for Mendocino early Friday morning. We spent two nights at a great bed and breakfast.

We took a different, more impressive path to the lighthouse.

Tobia and I decided to revisit Point Cabrillo Lighthouse, because we enjoy the walk out there and the scenery is beautiful.

As we were approaching the lighthouse on a different path than last time, I heard repeated waves crashing against the rock. I had never heard sounds like that, and I had a hunch that this must be an incredible area. Sure enough, coming up to the edge, I noticed an incredibly rocky area, full of waves and even a cave. The waves were crashing so hard against the various rocks that they simply weren’t dying off and constantly spraying and making loud sounds. I loved it!

I didn’t waste any time running down (and nearly getting soaked) to the rocks.

Sitting on the rocks enjoying the view.

Waves crashing nearby.

More nice view.

The lighthouse just south of us.

I ran down there and got comfortable sitting nearby and observing nature unfold in front of me. Tobia joined me and we relaxed for a while.

Following the lighthouse, we continued on to the Botanical Gardens.

Lettuce growing in a square foot garden.

Grown lettuce.

The gardens were nice, but the square foot gardening section caught my attention. I’ve been extremely interested in starting that myself and was very impressed to see how effective a yield and incredible a variety is possible with little land. Definitely something for me to think about for the near future.

We spent the rest of the day and the following day walking around a lot, taking breaks to watch the ocean and appreciated both an extremely high tide and an extremely low tide. It’s really neat to see the ocean at more than 7 feet early in the day (I’d never seen it that high, nor that low), and later that day at negative 1.5 feet… all due to gravitational forces from the sun and moon.

Negative tide, I was able to see the entire rock in front of us.

I could only get the far down at negative tide.

The view was obviously different at high tide.

Almost got soaked.

The rock is barely visible here.

Evening low tide.

Tobia relaxes by reading some newspaper on the rocks.

Self portrait at our B&B room.

It was a great few day getaway, totally clearing my head.