Coast Trail Hike in Point Reyes National Seashore

Originally there was a plan to go snowboarding this fine weekend - thinking everyone will be off watching Superbowl and we'd have the mountain to ourselves, but with it being sunny and in the 60s we slept in and decided to go on a hike up in Point Reyes National Seashore. After stopping at the info center we settled on the Coast Trail and headed off. Leaving the visitor we spotted about 3 deer, and continued to see quail, condors and birds hanging out throughout the hike.

At first the terrain was mainly shrubbery and on this fire road path.


Then we headed into a woodsier area


Then we caught a glimpse of the coastline in the distance, right where we were heading.

The sea grass and shrubs were beautiful, as seen here by Jeremy's good eye (you know, versus the fake one :))

This guy seems a little early for the season, but with the weather we've been having...


Then we found this path to the beach...

and decided to take a little detour. The water really was this blue and beautiful. I couldn't believe it.

We found this dead crab shell, he still had his eyes! Creepy, but awesome!

Jeremy got all ghetto with some driftwood and seaweed, but honestly, who wouldn't???

Then I pleaded for Jeremy to take a photo of me on this gorgeous beach (you can see the desperation in my face)

After wandering along the beach for a bit, we found our way back to the trail to loop back to the car. Saw this tree that I nicknamed the 'picnic' tree (because of the log ont he side of the tree that looks perfect for a picnic).

You can see some quail ahead on the trail here

closer up...

even closer....wait, that's not quail! That's the rarely seen bare-assed sell, known to be extremely skinny and sprightly.

At the end of the trail there were these really cool haunting trees


I have to say, not only is it cool that we've managed to go on 3 hikes in the last 4 weeks, but also that each hike has been different - different location, different terrain and fauna, different smells, but all so awesome.
With that said, we went home and made some delicious steak quesadillas

yum!