We left Calistoga on the morning of October 16th and headed for the coast where we finally got our toes into the Pacific Ocean. Point Reyes National Seashore is the place to do it with scores of pristine beach and mountain ridges. We set camp at the Olema Campgrounds about two miles south of the Bear Valley entrance, and headed for the park where we went to the lighthouse to view the point where the Pacific lies west and Drakes Bay to the east.

It was very windy.

This guy and his friends appeared.

A major controversy the has been going on for many years has been the attempt of the National Park Service to close down ranches and the Drakes Bay Oyster Farm which have been operating for many decades before the area had become a national park. There has been a long campaign to save the Oyster operation but the U.S. Supreme Court has recently ruled in favor of the NPS and the oyster farm will close at the end of this year.

Knowing that this would be be our last opportunity to get Drakes’ Bay Farm oysters we headed down to the local market in Point Reyes Station and brought them back to the campground where Mitch shucked them and we sucked them down with white wine and beer. Great.