Diane in front of the B&B. You can just see our room to the right of the sign above the bush.
This is one of the main streets in Mendocino (Lansing St.).
I was fascinated by the carving on the tall building in the center of the picture. The building is the Masonic hall built in 1865. The statue on top of the building was created by Eric Albertson out of a single piece of a giant Redwood trunk which he sculpted on Big River beach where he lived and died shortly after. The real meaning of the statue is a secret held by the Masons. The only explaination give is that "The figures depicted are used by the Masons' in their ritual work and thereby unknown to persons except Mason's".
The photo below was taken at one of our many stops driving along the coast north of Mendocino before the cut inland to the 101 highway.
This is the area that Diane mentioned where the waves started coming farther up the beach and we had to scurry to avoid getting our feet wet.
This is from the same beach looking northward. You can see the effect of the wind on the trees.
The waves coming in farther.
Another great stop along the way. I just want to sit and watch and listen to the waves crashing in.
As you head north on Highway 1, or the "1" as they call it in California, you leave the coastline at Rockport and head inland. I forgot how many hills and curves there are between Rockport and Leggett where the "1" stops and you join the "101". It is an interesting drive to say the least. Once we were on the "101" we entered some old growth areas with great, tall trees. There was a road that we thought would take us to a scenic view or old trees but it seemed to just leave the scenic area. On the way out, fortunately there wasn't much traffic and I was able to just pull crossway on the road to take this picture.
We stopped for the night in Eureka. It is a busy port town in northern California, back on the coast.
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