Thursday – Hiking and Eating

Clear and sunny when we got up. Rain coming tonight, so we’ll make the most of today.

I thought my hiking days were over. Walking, OK. But hiking? Well, remember Trinidad Head, that big land mass across the water from our Sea Cliff House? It’s pictured just below. There’s a hiking trail on it and in a weak moment I agreed that we’d do it. So we did it. Here are way too many pictures from the hike on Trinidad Head (split into part one and part two).

Here’s a bonus panorama picture from the hike showing Trinidad from up on the head (click to enlarge).

After the hike we stopped for breakfast/lunch at the Sea Scape located right there where we parked for the hike. Elaine had breakfast (eggs over with sausage and hash browns. I opted for lunch. A nice stout beer with chowder and an open-face crab salad sandwich. Yum. I got a piece of blackberry pie to go because it was so good last time we ate here. I’ll eat that tomorrow.

Then it was home to rest. Just below Sea Cliff House is Indian Beach. Well, it was Indian Beach until someone decided that was politically incorrect, so it was renamed. But everyone calls it Indian Beach and I can’t find the new name anywhere. It’s a steep climb done from our house (and seemingly steeper back up). what possessed me? Here are pictures from the beach including quite a few of birds and a couple of a surfer on a motorized surf board. Who knew they existed. The beach is sort of in a cove so the seas are not as wild as you saw in previous pictures. In one picture you can see our house if you have sharp eyes. It’s almost invisibly camouflaged from below.

Dinner tonight at Laruppin Cafe, an eclectic fine dining establishment in Trinidad. Great local wine. House appetizer platter. Six Humboldt Bay oysters for me. Delicious lamb chops for me. Locally caught red snapper for Elaine. For dessert, I had crème brûlée, Elaine had lemon tart. Yummmm!