This is our 25th anniversary. (Chris said “that’s longer than I’ve been alive!…oh, yea.) We decided to spend the day doing something beside working here. We headed west to see the Pt. Reyes Lighthouse at the Pt. Reyes National Seashore. It turns out that the lighthouse is closed on Tuesdays, but it was a beautiful day at the coast anyway. The only thing we missed was walking down (and up) the 300 stairs to the lighthouse.

The signs say that this is the “windiest point on the American Pacific coast” with winds regularly at 40 mph and reaching 100 mph. It is also often foggy in the summer. We lucked out. This was one of the nicest days that I’ve ever had on the coast.

That’s the Farallon Islands in the distance, about 20 miles from Pt. Reyes.

There are harbor seals on those rocks.

After visiting the lighthouse (well, the cliffs above the lighthouse), we drove back through the hills to one of the beach access trails and saw pretty landscape and wildlife on the way.

…and not so wild-life. Within the National Seashore there are several working dairies with signs that say the ranches were established in the 1850-s to 1870’s. We were thinking that it would have been a long way to haul milk to San Francisco unless there was boat transport across the bay.

There are 10 miles of beach in this stretch.

I took a lot of photos of waves–maybe not National Geographic quality, but the color is pretty nice.

To another 25 years!