Reflections From the Fence: Patrick's Point State Park California

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

THE Trip, THE Encore' :: Patrick's Point State Park, Trinidad, California, Sumeg Village

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NOTE: We visited on May 23, 2013. Yes, I am months behind on THE Trip, THE Encore' trip reports. Yep, I am.

Patrick's Point State Park.

The rest of our visit was spent at the Sumeg Village, a recreated Yurok seasonal village. The area in the park is considered a sensitive cultural area, as it is actively used to preserve traditions and to educate their youth. Signage asks that you stay out of the dance pit in particular, and since we were unsure which that was, we did not enter any of the structures, we peaked in and Sony Too got a look in a couple of them. We tried to honor and respect the village. On writing this post, I discovered this other site from the Redwood Parks Association, which shows a number of photos. Have a lookie see, photo number 8 appears to be the dance pit, which we did not locate or see during our visit.

Some of the huts had very low entrances, and were dug out. Some had flat entrances with flat floors inside.

Very low to the ground, this hut has a round door.

Man peaking in.

Sony Too took a peak. Fire pit.

The construction always interests me.

Another hut.

This hut you walked down into a bit.

You can tell how low this hut is built when you see Man standing beside it.

More construction detail.

Patrick's Point State Park, as friend Mina said, a diamond in the rough, stunning scenery, history, many things to discover and enjoy.

THE Trip, THE Encore' :: Patrick's Point State Park, Trinidad, California, The Visit Continues

NOTE: We visited on May 23, 2013. Yes, I am months behind on THE Trip, THE Encore' trip reports. Yep, I am.

Patrick's Point State Park.

While Man waited (see previous post), I took a few more photos from my vantage point. OK, a lot more. I won't show you all, more rocks, more crashing waves, and this. This is similar to one on yesterday's post, the zoom and angle a bit different, but so gorgeous, I had to include this one as well. I hope you forgive me!

On the way back to the main path, this view gives you some idea of just how steep and dramatic the terrain is.

From here we continued along the main path till we found the cut off for Patrick's Point. This section of the trail had brush growing overhead, like walking through a tunnel.

Our view, as far as we walked. We sat. I shot a bunch of photos. We enjoyed.

This photo in no way does justice to the delicate color. Does show the beautiful blue sky however.

I took several different shots, Sony Too zooming, or not.

Zoom:

No zoom:

Time to move on, however, when we get back to Jolly, who is that sitting next to us?? Why HoboBob and his wife, Mina, good RVing friends. We were in the same park (yes, we knew that), but, had both been out and about running errands, and without knowing it, both ended up at Patrick Point State Park.

The dudes, HoboBob and Man. Seriously studying something, probably had to do with trucks. Comfy tree.

After our visit, Man and I headed over to Sumeg Village. Coming soon to Reflections.

* A fine PDF brochure for the park can be found here, downloadable, of course.

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Monday, March 17, 2014

THE Trip, THE Encore' :: Patrick's Point State Park, Trinidad, California

NOTE: We visited on May 23, 2013. Yes, I am months behind on THE Trip, THE Encore' trip reports. Yep, I am.

Patrick's Point State Park was a little treasure. We decided to visit because it was so close to our campground. What a wonderful surprise. We spent several hours there, a bit of hiking and Sony Too and I got lost in the beauty.

This is Agate Beach. Man and I were still recovering from the hike down and back out at Axel Lindgren Memorial Trail, Trinidad. Neither of us felt we could get down to the beach, 180 feet or so, below. Ok, it's not the getting down, it is the getting back out! So, we took a long look, sure is pretty.

We did wander down the path to the beach, just a bit, so we could get a "feel" for the experience. As we turned to leave Man found these agates lying on the trail. As if some wonderful person knowing we were not up to the trek in and out left a gift for us to find. Thank you nice person.

Sony Too zooms to show us the beach we will not get to walk. Tide Tables are posted at the trail head. You can see that it looks like when the tide is high there won't be a lot of beach left to walk on.

The Patrick's Point State Park web site tells us:

"In some parts of the park, plant life is so luxuriant that hikers moving along the trail are sheltered and isolated by walls of vegetation."

No kidding!

As the paths come close to water Sony Too and I attempt to capture the beauty.

It becomes a challenge and somehow thrilling and relaxing at the same time to capture the water crashing over the rocks. Lots of zoom here.

Here comes a wave swallowing the same rock.

Further down the path there is another path which goes out to what is called Wedding Rock or Ceremonial Rock. Yes, you can book weddings there, see the web page. See the fellow out there standing, wouldn't that be a special wedding site?

I love the blues, turquoise water, true blue skies with a narrow layer of pale purple clouds. Mix in varying greens from the hills and evergreens. Add one path, rocks and crashing surf. OK, what is NOT to love?

Capturing the crashing waves.

I find myself standing for long periods of time trying to capture the magic of waves crashing over rock. Below, two photos, same rock, different waves. Time stands still, the sound is mesmerizing. Sony Too and I are really in our own world. Both of these photos came out of the digital world of Sony just like this, only editing done was a bit of auto correct, which just enriched the black of the rocks. No changes to the colors were made. As a reminder, I do not carry a full sized tripod. I do have a couple of tripod stands that are about 5 inches tall. Most of my photos are taken with available light, hand held. I gets what I get. I can live with the results, and the photos that are icky, I delete! You will note, I did not delete these two.