California - March 3 - April 11, 2011

Our next stop was Duncans Mills Camping Club at Duncans Mills, CA. 
It's located between Jenner and Santa Rosa, CA.  We actually visited this campground twice and had a wonderful time here.  The campground sits right on the Russian River.  We were able to launch from the campground and kayak to the Pacific at Jenner.  Enjoy the pictures from this stop.

The wonderful thing about kayaking is how close you get to nature.

One of the many pictures we took kayaking the Russian River. 
We were on the river several times during our stay.

Mama and baby seal enjoying the Russian River as well.

Marty just pulling up to Jenner, CA  The building in the forground is the take-out point.

Sonoma Coast State Beach by Jenner, CA

More of Sonoma Coast State Beach, near Jenner CA

This shot is from Goat Island.

Seals across the bay from Jenner

Marty Feasting on a GOOD piza at Occidental CA, after a hard day on the Russian River.

Bob Nobel on the left, Kay is in the middle and young woman fron Texas we met at the campground. Was nice to kayak with friends.

Another view of the Russian River.

This picture is from Rhodendrem State park along hiway 1.

From Duncans Mills the first visit we headed forRedwoods River Resort at Legget, CA deep in the Redwoods. 

A view of our campsite.  Too many trees to get Dish TV and no internet or phone signal either. 
We felt pretty cute off from the world although it was beautiful here.

We alway meet wonderful people while traveling.  Here is the Potyok family from Northern California.  He is in the Coast Guard and will be transferring to Florida this summer.  Hopefully we'll run into them again when we visit that state.

To give you an idea just how big these Redwood trees are we took this picture of the
 truck on our drive through Avenue of the Giants.  You can just barely pick out the truck on the road.

In Northern California we found a small town of Ferndale. You can find lots of Victorian Archtecture.  These pictures are just a small samle.  While in this small town we also visited a cheese factory and sampled lots of yummy cheeses.

A beautiful Catholic church from the same town.

While staying a Legget we drove over to the coast and near Fort Bragg we kayaked the Big River.  Several years ago we had kayaked here but didn't get as much time on the river as we would have liked.  Our fond memories brought us back.

A beautiful blue heron on Big River.

Kay was able to get really close to this seal.

An unusual look at the Big River.  The seagull thought he'd take a ride on Marty's kayak.