Abalone Aventures or 24 Hours of onepixel
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ozmoid
Lunatic Member
Excellent post, Carl! We need more "Adventures of onepixel", IMO. :thmbsp:
And enjoy the upcoming screaming throngs.
And enjoy the upcoming screaming throngs.
Actually, it makes me want to take up rock climbing. :yes:
onepixel
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Excellent post, Carl! We need more "Adventures of onepixel", IMO. :thmbsp:
And enjoy the upcoming screaming throngs.
Actually, it makes me want to take up rock climbing. :yes:
All of life should be an adventure. :yes:
Here you go Ozzie.
http://www.indoorclimbing.com/northcarolina.html
I've introduced dozens of people from 4-50+ in age to climbing. Best place to start is an indoor climbing gym. Take the kids, they are naturals!
Have fun and climb safe!
I guess I will have to take picture next weekend...
tensleep
Addicted Member
Point Arena is great!
Thanks, Onepixel, for the little window into your world. We lived in Merced, CA, for several years and explored the northern coast of CA whenever we could. While we loved Monterey Bay and I always enjoyed exporing San Francisco (I could take the AmTrak from Merced to the city), our favorite place was Point Arena.
We (my pregnant-at-the-time wife and my first son) rented the cottage at the Coast Guard House Bed & Breakfast right by the pier. Do yourself and your family a favor - stay there for a couple of nights! Especially if you love your breakfasts, and it sounds like you do. If the owners are the same, and they didn't plan on leaving any time soon, they will take great care of you. They brought our breakfast to the cottage in the mornings - much more secluded than the main house.
Me and my son eating breakfast (please ignore the funny looking people, focus on the food!):
This is the view from the master bedroom:
This is the view from the cliffs:
The Point Arena Lighthouse is great, too! The Fresnel Lens in the top is incredibly beautiful. It is so powerful that they keep the exterior windows draped during the day to prevent tourists from damaging their eyesight from the sun's magnified rays. They also have a great museum with all kinds of artifacts. The museum illustrates the timber industry, the dairy industry, shipping by sea (no roads, too rugged), small gauge railroads - exciting stuff!
This is the lighthouse and the Fresnel Lens (best shot I could get, too close):
I didn't mean to get so carried away, but you were definitely in one of the most beautiful spots I have ever been. And what a great story! Thanks for finishing my day so well!
Thanks, Onepixel, for the little window into your world. We lived in Merced, CA, for several years and explored the northern coast of CA whenever we could. While we loved Monterey Bay and I always enjoyed exporing San Francisco (I could take the AmTrak from Merced to the city), our favorite place was Point Arena.
We (my pregnant-at-the-time wife and my first son) rented the cottage at the Coast Guard House Bed & Breakfast right by the pier. Do yourself and your family a favor - stay there for a couple of nights! Especially if you love your breakfasts, and it sounds like you do. If the owners are the same, and they didn't plan on leaving any time soon, they will take great care of you. They brought our breakfast to the cottage in the mornings - much more secluded than the main house.
Me and my son eating breakfast (please ignore the funny looking people, focus on the food!):
This is the view from the master bedroom:
This is the view from the cliffs:
The Point Arena Lighthouse is great, too! The Fresnel Lens in the top is incredibly beautiful. It is so powerful that they keep the exterior windows draped during the day to prevent tourists from damaging their eyesight from the sun's magnified rays. They also have a great museum with all kinds of artifacts. The museum illustrates the timber industry, the dairy industry, shipping by sea (no roads, too rugged), small gauge railroads - exciting stuff!
This is the lighthouse and the Fresnel Lens (best shot I could get, too close):
I didn't mean to get so carried away, but you were definitely in one of the most beautiful spots I have ever been. And what a great story! Thanks for finishing my day so well!
onepixel
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tensleep,
Great photos and getting carried away is just fine! I do all the time.
We've toured the lighthouse but never stayed at the B&B. But years ago my wife and I staid at St. Orres not to far away.
http://www.saintorres.com/
That stretch of coast has a lot of history. The first European record was in the 1500s by a Spainard! And as you can see the hotel at St. Orres has Russian influenced spires. Fort Ross further south was a Russian Colony. I forget the exact details but at the Point Arena pier, there is a plaque that commemorates 16(?) Japanese fishermen who sailed in a pretty small boat in the late 1800s to Point Arena.
Traveling by AmTrak is probably the most comfortable way to go!
Great photos and getting carried away is just fine! I do all the time.
We've toured the lighthouse but never stayed at the B&B. But years ago my wife and I staid at St. Orres not to far away.
http://www.saintorres.com/
That stretch of coast has a lot of history. The first European record was in the 1500s by a Spainard! And as you can see the hotel at St. Orres has Russian influenced spires. Fort Ross further south was a Russian Colony. I forget the exact details but at the Point Arena pier, there is a plaque that commemorates 16(?) Japanese fishermen who sailed in a pretty small boat in the late 1800s to Point Arena.
Traveling by AmTrak is probably the most comfortable way to go!
tensleep
Addicted Member
I remember driving by that place! I thought it was a church, a monestary, or the hideout of an eccentric recluse. That place is fabulous and thanks for the link.
I do miss the unique and wonderful places to visit in that part of the world. However, we got out just before the housing market tanked and are in a very beautiful area of Northern Alabama, closer to home.
There's nothing like the Coastal Range or the foothills of the Sierra Nevada or the Giant Sequoias and Bristlecone Pines or the Pacific Coast, but here we have the Tennessee River Valley, with it's beautiful, gentle mountains, rivers and caves. Plus, the cost of living is very reasonable and Grandma, Grandpop and my two brothers are all within half a day's drive now.
May your turntables never flutter and your hearing never fail!
I do miss the unique and wonderful places to visit in that part of the world. However, we got out just before the housing market tanked and are in a very beautiful area of Northern Alabama, closer to home.
There's nothing like the Coastal Range or the foothills of the Sierra Nevada or the Giant Sequoias and Bristlecone Pines or the Pacific Coast, but here we have the Tennessee River Valley, with it's beautiful, gentle mountains, rivers and caves. Plus, the cost of living is very reasonable and Grandma, Grandpop and my two brothers are all within half a day's drive now.
May your turntables never flutter and your hearing never fail!
geaugafletcher
Well-Known Member
Holy smokes, you eat those things? It's a living garbage disposal! The only creature that looks (and must smell) worse than its own food!
Thanks for the window into a day, good sir.
Thanks for the window into a day, good sir.
onepixel
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Holy smokes, you eat those things? It's a living garbage disposal! The only creature that looks (and must smell) worse than its own food!
Thanks for the window into a day, good sir.
Hell yeah... I eat those things!
Actually, abalone eat kelp and have a very slight scent of the ocean. When they were commercially available almost 10 years ago in California, fresh Red abalone was $60 pound at the fish market. All abalone served in restaurants now are farm raised. There is a good reason why people pay $45-60 a dish at those shi-shi foo-foo restaurants.
...and I can serve 6-8 good friends with one.
