WOW! What an amazing trip.

Here are just a few pictures from our trip up the coast. We stayed about four hours drive North from the Bay Area just outside of the town of Mendocino. These shots were taken at the mouth of Big River where it empties in to the ocean at Casper Beach. The boys have on wet suits as they went body surfing in the ocean. This river is beautiful and has a sandy bottom where these pictures were taken . It's banks are studded with majestic red woods and salmon and steel head run its' length.

We couldn't fish for salmon but we did fish off the rocks and off a boat and caught so many fish we couldn't eat them all so we were forced to freeze many of them. All the fish we caught were various types rock fish and ling cod, the largest of which was a gorgeous 10 pound carnelian cod. The trip was amazing. We did everything from building a fire on the private beach outside our rental house where we made s'mores to soaking in the hot tub overlooking the pounding waves below the cliff on which it was perched. We wanted to stay longer but alas, we needed to come back to the reality of day to day life in the Bay Area. Mauricio and I have decided that we really want to buy some property up this way. It's such a beatiful stretch of coastline with some of the largest and most majestic redwoods in the world.