25.5.2024, Point Reyes National Seashore (SF Bay Area)

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Visited: McClure‘s [McClures] Beach, www.nps.gov/places/point-reyes-mcclures-beach.htm: A moderately-steep and sandy creek-side trail … descends from the parking lot … In spring and early summer, the trail is dotted with brightly colored wildflowers … McClures Beach is an isolated and beautiful cove that is exposed to the Pacific Ocean surf. Thundering … waves crash on shore …

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Point Reyes National Seashore, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Reyes_National_Seashore: … maintained by the US National Park Service as an important nature preserve. Some existing agricultural uses are allowed to continue within the park … The Point Reyes peninsula is … geologically separated from … almost all of the continental United States by a rift zone of the San Andreas Fault … about half of which is sunk below sea level and forms Tomales Bay … The northernmost part of the peninsula is maintained as a reserve for tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes), an elk subspecies historically native to the region.