Home Sweet Home…

Well we have settled in to our new jobs quite well. We work for the park 25 hours a week over 5 days. We have Tuesdays and Wednesdays off of work. So our day normally consists of a morning walk around the park to check on garbage cans and bathrooms. One busy days we have to empty and clean up a little from time to time. Then in the middle of the day we normally spend a few hours cleaning up around the park, picking up litter, or trimming brush, or generally whatever needs to be done. Then once again in the evening we will do another round of the park before things quiet down. Generally we assist with what ever the Parks workers need. They have a good group of seasonal workers that do all of the trash pickup and bathroom cleaning during the day.

The remainder of the time is ours to do as we please. We often taken time to walk along the coast, hike up the canyon, sit and read, and watch DVD’s. We don’t have any TV as I said before, so we don’t waste allot of time with that. Reading a DVD watching are both high on the list right now.

The weather has been great for the last few weeks. We have had 70’s and sunshine all the time. Sounds like the summer is very foggy and we have missed all of that and we are enjoying the sun without the 100 degree weather that the rest of California is enjoying. We had the fog and overcast for a week or so in August, but that is gone now.

Here is a map of the park. The deepest bay is the main attraction of the park.




This photo is taken from the top of the bluffs on the south side of the bay. As you can see there is some good fog here. You can see the point to the left of the photo. This is where the day use picnic area is and it is one of the popular areas of the park is.




Now we are standing on the furthest southern point in the park. Where you see the fog on the right side is the bay that we were standing over just a few minutes before. That is how the fog sits around here. It can be clear in one spot and socked in a ¼ mile away.




There are lots of people in the park all of the time. Here in this photo you see some Abalone divers sitting on the bank preparing for a dive. Then in the distance above them is a couple getting married just overlooking the Pacific. We have had three weddings here in the park since we have started.





Here if you look closely on the left side you can see some kayakers on the water. There are lots of caves and tunnels in the coastline, so the kayakers like this area.






That is all for now.
R.J.