Monday, May 25, 2009

Places I'm Visiting: Sunrise State Beach





Just back from two nights camping at Sunrise State Beach, near Watsonville, California (the self-proclaimed Artichoke Capital of the World). The campsite was next to an ocean of strawberry fields on one side, the actual ocean on the other. The facilities were very good (coin-operated hot showers) and the food was great--not that that had anything to do with the place itself. I'm not much of a camping enthusiast--although I loved camping as a Boy Scout and backpacking in my days of summers at the Outdoor Education Center at Glen Helen, in Yellow Springs, Ohio--but it was mostly fun. It would have been more enjoyable if my foot hadn't been so painful from the bee stings. Bizarrely, I got stung again, this time by a lone bumblebee on the beach, and then fell asleep there and got a terrible sunburn.

Do you have a voodoo doll of me?

Didn't see any interesting new birds. Saw quite a few interesting wildflowers, though. I haven't yet identified these.

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