Point Reyes National Seashore Day 1

We got up and left Yosemite this morning around 8:00am. We’ve got packing down to a science now. We set out for Point Reyes National Seashore, which is about an hour north of San Francisco. We had to travel through Oakland, CA to get to our destination. If you ever think you want to take a trip to Oakland, don’t. Driving there was a nightmare. Every exit we needed to take was blocked by the police or under road construction. I don’t like driving in cities anyway, but Oakland was about as stressful as it gets.

We got through Oakland and made it to Olema RV Resort and Campground. The road to the town of Olema was very curvy and very bumpy. Kate and I both are about tired of curvy, bumpy roads at this point. The straightness of the interstate is going to be a welcome site on the way home. I don’t get carsick very often, but I started to get sick around here. We set up camp and the first thing we did was laundry. We were both on our last pair of clean underwear, so it was necessary.

After laundry, we went down to the seashore. It’s cool to see the Pacific Ocean and how it’s different from what we're used to in NC. The surf is a lot heavier, and it’s cold out here. The water is freezing and the air isn’t that much warmer. It’s constantly windy. In some points the ocean comes right up against the rocks. We went to the Point Reyes Lighthouse, which is one of the oldest lighthouses on the west coast. They close the lighthouse when wind conditions are over 40mph, which is quite often apparently. The sign there said it might be the windiest place on the west coast. It was definitely colder and windier than the beaches we have back home. It’s funny that this is the coldest place we’ve been to yet and we’ve been in the mountains for the past week. We took a stroll on the beach and then headed back to camp for supper.

After supper, we took a much needed shower. I’m embarrassed to say that it’s been about 6 days since our last shower. I know. We think it’s pretty bad, too. They say if you can smell yourself then other people have been smelling you for 3 days. We passed that mark a while ago. We were glad to take a little time to clean up this evening in a shower that we didn’t have to put quarters into. The showers here at the campsite are the kind you have to keep pushing a button to get water to come out of. Once you push the button, you get 9 seconds of water so you really have to be diligent or you’ll get cold. While I was in the shower, I heard two people in the toilet area slamming stuff around and giggling. I knew something was going on that shouldn’t have been and my guess was that it was teenage boys running amok. I was going to try to stop them from doing whatever it was they were doing, but I was completely naked and covered in soap so that would have hindered my abilities, but the site of me naked and covered in soap should have been enough to scare away the toughest of customers. It turns out that they cut the water lines in all the toilets so that was a bit of a headache.

After our shower, we crawled into bed and got ready for an early morning. Whale watching tomorrow! Up at 5:00am. Yuck!