Crescent City Harbor

You can give yourself to the sea

or she can take you,

either way you will be changed forever. 

She might even give you back,

then it’s up to you, 

what to do with yourself.

We finally got the tracking number for our sail slides.  They are do in tomorrow afternoon.  They left Massachusetts yesterday afternoon.  As I type this they’re in Oakland,  CA.  It’s kind of mind-blowing for me the juxtaposition of our mode of travel with modern times.  It took us two days to sail a couple hundred miles down the coast and now our parts are traveling across the whole country, 3,000 miles, in that same amount of time.  Crazy!  

The approach to C-City Harbor is filled with rocks but there’s no bar to worry about and with two giant breakwaters, an inner and and outer one, its quite a safe approach if you mind the buoys track down the range markers.  We saw no less that 19’ of depth the whole way in.  The marina is strongly build with state of the art facilities and at $25 a night it’s a bargain for dockage with full power & water hookups.  The marina staff has been friendly and helpful too.  We've seen harbor seals every day about the boat and once even a sea otter.  

We biked over to nearby Battery Point Lighthouse today.  It’s located outside the harbor on an island that you can walk out to at low tide.  It’s an old and charming light house (was one of the first lighthouses build on the California coast).  It’s still operating, staffed by volunteer keepers and it’s open to the public. 

On the way over the low tied approach we saw this.  I don’t know what the hell it is; man hole cover for the bay’s drain or access to some kind of “Lost” like entrance way to a secret Dharma Initiative facility.  

The light house is charming.  We go a full, top-to-bottom tour by the keepers, even up to the light it’s self.  

When we got back a beautiful bird landed in Malo's companionway.

One never knows what they might see on the sea...