Deja Vu... All Over Again

So...

I’m sitting in my cozy van, eating a turkey sandwich and reading the...

Hey... waaaiit a minute.....

DEJA VU!

I’m in Eureka again, on my way down the California coast. I won another 250$ today, but had about a hundred in... Good thing I’m running out of Casinos! I do have a boatload of hundreds in my wallet... (well, not THAT many, but certainly a lot more than I would have!)

I’ve got to do this now, because I just remembered they turn off the wifi when they leave...

I drove down through Crescent city.




Interesting story in Crescent city. Years ago I stopped to go visit the lighthouse there. You can only get to it at low tide, and it was very impressive, with the 3 foot think walls and big light and all. There are still keepers there, and I THINK the lighthouse is still used.. maybe not.



Anyways, as I was driving to the lighthouse, I noticed that there was this HUGE park (you can see the trees in this picture). I thought., this is where the sleazy docks and old boats and stuff would be in another city.. how forward thinking they were to not let that happen.

See.. there was this earthquake in Alaska in 1964. The resulting tidal wave wiped out a great deal of Crescent city as it moved down the coast. The people in the lighthouse watched, horrified, as three gigantic waves washed over the docks and low lying houses and dragged everything out to sea..

They never built the waterfront back, opting for a park instead.

They have also added SEVERAL breakwater arrangements and walls just in case.



As I sit and watched the lighthouse and shore, I noticed a large seagull in the parking lot. It was just the two of us. I had one of those little “snack packs’ of turkey and cheese, so I opened it and tossed a piece ot turkey to him. He caught the second one before it hit the ground, and then caught most of them (when I threw them correctly) thereafter. He also ran off every other bird who attempted to cash in on the good stuff! I tried like hell to get a picture of him catching the booty, but it's not easy to throw and take a picture at the same time.

Back in Eureka...




The truck stop where I met the trucker.. remember? I told you about him on he way up..




Across 101, up on the hill is this Motel.. the Bayview Motel. When Joe and I went through Eureka in the early 70’s, it was just a bunch of those ever popular bungalow type buildings with a car port. The price was $10 a night. We checked in and then.... the wind changed...

Eureka was (and still is I’m sure) a logging town. Back then the factories were on the waterfront. They used salt water to soak and whatever with the trees...

When the wind changed, it smelled like salty old socks.... or worse.

We got up about 4 AM and then drove about 5 miles an hour (the fog was so thick!) until we got far enough away from the smell..

I can still smell it...