Moved the rock to the top of the rocky scramble. Feeling good about my strategy. Picked up some smaller rocks for Kari. I think they might reappear as necklaces.
It’s a long haul for a girl and her rock 
Good think there are handy bushy waystops 
Some legs were longer than others….oooph 
Just over this little rise 
and across this long, 
long, sandy stretch 
The rubble pile up to the trail was tough 
That little shelf at the top of the rubble pile. Lifesaver 
Swinging Shropshire off the shelf and around the corner and an easy end
Ran into Crescent City for gas. Happy to be back in the woods full of bacon and eggs and polenta.
We walked the Simpson Reed Grove, drove the little road until it ended in a boat launch sand bar, and hiked the Myrtle Creek Trail into the botanical area.
Simpson Reed Grove
Tiny, tiny lichen growing on a gigantic Redwood 
Inside a Redwood limb 
Can you see the people sliding head-first down the trunk? 
Brontosaurus portrait
Myrtle Creek Botanical Trail
Lots of trillium 
Oxalis and wild ginger 
Beware of the giant chickens! 
Rhodys
I really liked this trail. It follows the course of a mining ditch up the hill. There are interpretive signs about the vegetation and mining. We tossed pebbles into a mine shaft filled with water. It took a satisfyingly long moment for them to plop. The maintained trail stops at a little myrtle creek beach and the looser trail continues onward.
Singing and bed preceded by tuna poke!