From star gazing to swimming with Moon Jellies, these are a few of my favorite things.
A year ago, I took the biggest leap of my life: I left Silicon Valley and moved to a rural home with a wood stove, a sweeping view of Tomales Bay and easy access to the wilds of West Marin. It’s what I have wanted since before I can remember.
They’re easiest to spot along Tomales Point Trail, an out-and-back hiking route which follows the crest of an open ridge along an old ranch road. The trail winds up and down along a narrowing peninsula, ending where two magnificent bays — Tomales and Bodega — meet. The first mile of this trail is level and broad, with stellar views looking west over the Pacific Ocean. Your first elk sighting will likely be about a mile into the hike, when the trail drops into a saddle called Windy Gap and animals often gather at a perennial spring in the gulch. If they’re not there, keep walking for another mile — the trail ascends and then drops down to a stock pond at the long-gone Lower Pierce Point Ranch.
To gaze at the West Marin sky is to see sights hidden to the rest of the Bay Area. If your back is turned to the horizon’s glare of Highway 101, it’s possible to view 2,000 stars. Want to stay out all night? As the Earth rotates, the number soars to 6,000. You can even see the soft spectacle of the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away and the most distant thing visible to the unaided eye.
The tricky part is timing. The event is always about an hour after sundown and during the darkest week before the new moon — but the exact date is always determined by the fog. Go toCan’t make it to the star party? Head to Limantour Beach, which has the Park’s darkest and most unblemished sight of the heavens.Park at Third and C streets in downtown Point Reyes Station and follow the candles to find the stargazing party.I’ll never be a jellyfish.
Once widespread throughout the coastal West, they now survive only in isolated relict stands. This small state park, often overlooked by visitors to the National Seashore, hosts one of the most extensive and picturesque groves of Bishop pine in the world. They are unique to granitic quartz-diorite soils.
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