Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Along CA Route 1 Costal Highway, North of Santa Cruz

Sent from my T-Mobile SideKick LX-2009

About 10 miles north of Santa Cruz

Sent from my T-Mobile SideKick LX-2009

Our first two stops today were at the Big Basin and Henry Cowell Redwood State Park Visitor Centers. We walked the short trails at both parks, but I only took pictures with the SideKick LX-2009 at the Henry Cowell park. I was using the DVD Recorder at Big Basin.

Marianne was taking pictures with the Kodak digital camera at both parks, but I haven’t gotten to those pictures yet… I am post-timing this post to the time we were at the park, and these are some of the pictures from Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park:

Redwood Clump

Really Big Trees

Looking Up

Sillouetted Pair

I was so tired last night I really didn’t feel like making any additional blog entries, but we did make one short trip down the peninsula to the Puglas Water Temple, which is a memorial to those who worked to bring the Hetch Hetchy water supply to the residents of the Bay Peninsula 75 years ago.

70th Anniversary Memorial Plaque

Pulgas Water Temple

The memorial is classic Greek architecture, and when I found it on the web after looking at the area on Google Earth, I just had to come to see it. I just wish it was a nice sunny day like our trip 2 years ago when we passed right by and did not know it was here.

Unfortunately, it was not the best of weather, rainy and wet, but we did walk around a bit to see the area.

Pulgas Water Temple from Canada Road

Ok, the morning is here, and we are hoping for a little better weather today than we had yesterday, but I think it is still going to be a little showery and wet.

We are staying the the Hampton Inn on Gateway Blvd in South San Francisco, right next door to the Embassy Suites where we stayed last time we made this trip (August 2007). The Hampton is not the Embassy Suites, but nearly as nice for half the price, and we don’t have to pay $15 a night for parking.

The look out our window this morning

Today’s plans are to drive down to the Big Bend and Henry Cowell Redwood State Parks in the lower penisula, and then to Santa Cruz and back up the coastal highway to Pacifica and back to the hotel. But, it all depends on the weather….