Starting up the Pacific Coast Highway

Basing ourselves at the hotel in El Cerrito, we journeyed out on Thursday, July 1, to Tiburon and Sausalito and towns surrounding the San Francisco Bay.  What a beautiful area.  I don't think I have ever seen towns that just scream 'pride' in the way the houses and yards are kept.  The yards are full of flowers~~and the towns, too.  Everything is just done to the hilt, and to me spoke volumes of the way the people feel about living there.  It may also say something about the climate and their ability to have flowers all year long, which maybe makes all the effort worth it (or maybe it just screams money), I don't know.  Also, that day, we went to Fort Baker and to a Mammal Recovery place and saw rescued orphaned seals of all kinds.

At this point, we have decided to meander up the coastal highway.  We had, on a previous trip, done the pacific coast highway from San Diego to San Francisco.  We now look forward to seeing the rest of the coast.  We know we will not be disappointed.  The first thing on our list is the Point Reyes National Seashore.  I am fascinated by the San Andreas fault, and it runs right through the park.  We went there Friday and looked at all their exhibits and the film about the area.  We walked 4 trails, including the Earthquake Trail and an Indian village.

The San Andreas fault in this park ruptured during he 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and moved 20 feet in 90 seconds on that day.  Here is a picture of a fence which had been in one piece until the 1906 earthquake.  I am standing by the part that has moved.  Original location of fence is in foreground. The crack in the earth has 'healed'.