October 3, 2000
Inverness to Sausalito
Inverness to Sausalito
Got up this morning and went to the Bovine Bakery for a bear claw, a blueberry-buttermilk scone, and a chili pepper & cheddar scone. (I know, I know, all I talk about is food. I can't help it. I just love the variety, freshness, and abundance of great foods out here.) Anyhow, we took these three large delectables to Lori's house where we sat on her deck to eat them and have our morning coffee.
Lori is an accomplished artist and recycler who has a little place and a studio on a small farm right in Point Reyes. We watched her border collie "work" the horses and enjoyed watching some of the fancy chickens, two of which were jet black, small, and appeared to be walking around on feather dusters.
Lori is an accomplished artist and recycler who has a little place and a studio on a small farm right in Point Reyes. We watched her border collie "work" the horses and enjoyed watching some of the fancy chickens, two of which were jet black, small, and appeared to be walking around on feather dusters.
After breakfast we went to North Beach and beachcombed for awhile, picking up polished pieces of jasper and California jade. The shore was ours alone. Not another soul on this vast beach. Ice plant in various color phases and bloom and mustard colored sand banks made this area look like a colorful artist's palette. Brown pelicans were fishing the waves, flying within millimeters of the wave swells in search of fish.
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| North Beach (it's north of the Point Reyes Lighthouse) and some of the colorful ice plant that grows there |
After beachcombing, we ate lunch, and took naps. Blue Waters Kayaking for which Jess works wanted to get us out on the water, but Jess's arm is not ready, so we lazed the afternoon away before going to Tim's.
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| Blue Waters kayaks lined up along Tomales Bay |
Drove in to Tim's in Sausalito. My first visit to Sausalito and particularly this area with the houseboats. Wow! These are NOT your little lake-type houseboats but huge arty expensive homes floating on the water before docks and walkways heavy with potted trees & flowers. Several great blues and night herons fishing in the pools of light at the base of some of the houseboats.
Tim is renovating his houseboat so that it contains two apartments. He will rent out the downstairs apt. and. live in the upstairs one.
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| Tim in his houseboat house |
We walked along several docks looking at the fantastic houseboats (there was one small one for rent at the end of one dock—$3000 a month) and then went to an Asian restaurant for dinner. Early to bed in prep for tomorrow's cycling & birding.
Route: Inverness to Sausalito by car
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