Still working on June 5, 2013. Read that year. 2013. We are not in Oregon today! Please note, this post is a bit graphics heavy.
After our lunch we decided to investigate the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.
There was a very nice visitor center/interpretive center to get you started. Then, came the walk/hike. Downhill, a long way downhill. Then, by golly, we had to come uphill.
For a while the path was nicely and deeply covered in fresh wood chips.
For a while the path was nicely and deeply covered in fresh wood chips.
Then came dirt:
I was enthralled with this large plant, which I think is the skunk cabbage. Enthralled by the size, as it was huge - - see photos below. If this indeed is the skunk cabbage, I am thankful that we did not visit while it was in bloom. Just saying - -
Down hill we continue. A few very sharp turns are involved.
Just what IS around that corner Man?? More downhill, more curves.
As we came closer to wet lands, we walked a board walk.
There they are again, large, those skunk cabbage:
More along both sides of the boardwalk. See how large they are?? I hear the Jurassic Park theme playing in my head.
We break out into the open marsh lands:
A viewing stand:
At the end of the boardwalk, from the viewing stand, the estuary:
Not far from here, on our way back to Jolly, I found these red ?fungi?.
And, a snail, strolling along the path:
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