We hiked the Point Lena Trail (or maybe Lena Point Trail?)
today. It’s fairly short – probably less
than a mile each way, but leads to the small cliffs at the end of Point
Lena.
We diverged from the path a few times to scramble along the
rocks and despite a week with no rain, it was a muddy trail. The tide was out and exposed the different
layers of barnacles, kelp, and mussels.
There were a few tide pools and we saw some small darters, anemones, and
hermit crabs.
The coolest part though was the 4-5 sea lions surfacing just
off shore. There were probably feeding
and you can hear them when they come up for air – their breathing is
surprisingly loud – we heard them before we could pick them out in the water.
There’s also a lot of eagles around, feeding on the coho
salmon that are coming in to spawn. We
saw these over by the Macaulay hatchery.
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