Tuesday, May 15, 2012

A Hike to Kick Your Butt

Mother's Day
is 
MY DAY!

never mess with
MY
day


after
losing
two games
of Jenga
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and
enjoying
a glass of
Andrew's
first batch
of
home brewed
beer
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we
drove
to
Montana de Oro
for a
Mother's Day beach hike
we started about 1 mile UP from the beach
at
the
Rim Trail head
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Our goal was
the
Morro Bay Estuary
south of
Morro Rock
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this
time of year
a
good
portion
of
 beach access
is closed
because
the
Snowy Plover is
 nesting
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the Plover
must have
been
 hiding
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happy
energy
after
the
sandy downhill
jaunt
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we
even
found
friends
to 
capture
Mother's Day
memento
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the
day
was
foggy
but warm



lots of happy little sand pipers
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and
sadly
lots of
trash

Andrew found a floating fish line
that he named 
Floaty
(and dragged it with him the entire hike)
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Public Service Announcement
…….
balloons
plastic bottles
plastic bags
plastic containers
all 
along 
the beach

we collected a huge assortment
to recycle
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there
were
so many 
mylar balloons
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to make
a long
hiking story 
short
we went
about four miles
north
along the
peaceful
uncrowded
 beach

turned around
(with our collection of trash)

and
happily
hiked back
to
the 
beach trail head
(at the bottom of the hill)


I might
remind you
….
what goes down
has to 
go 
back 
up



going
back up
the
sandy
trail
to our
car
was
so
gnarly

(I thought I was going to die)
(couldn't even stop my momentum to take any pictures)



alas,
we
all
survived
(even me)

here are
just
a few
of our
beach treasures
(styrofoam things etc)
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 Floaty
and
shells
 and
sand dollars
 (most broke on the hike back)
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It
was 
wonderful
Mother's Day!

I inhaled
the
 day
with
my
family
and
survived
the
ghastly
sandy 
uphill
trek
of 
The Rim Trail
at
 Montana de Oro State Beach
P.s.  there are many 
many
other 
easy


medium easy


and


difficult hikes


as well as


Horseback riding
bike routes


tide pools
and 
anything
and
everything 
involving
Nature
at her best at
 Montana de Oro

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