MacKerricher

Matthew finished his finals on Thursday so Friday we packed the car up and headed North a couple of hours to Ft. Bragg where we spent a few days camping at MacKerricher. Matthew and his family use to go their quite a bit when he was younger and he had a lot of memories to share. It was a beautiful place and Evan and Dallin had a blast! We had our friends Mick, Angie, Dane & Aubrey Friday night and Saturday. Friday we got settled in and hung out around camp. Saturday we went down to the ocean and walked around enjoying and exploring. We went back at low tide to explore the tide pools.
We found some starfish, sea anenomes galore, crabs, hermit crabs but didn't venture out far enough to find any abalones or mussels. Sunday we took a lovely stroll around the Lake where Evan took a nice spill off the boardwalk.
It was one of those slow motion falls. He turned around to look at me and Dallin, lost his footing and stumbled backwards toward the fence that took him out at the knees and flipped backwards falling about 3 feet into the jungle grass. Matthew fished him out pretty quickly but he was still pretty shooken up. We then went to Ten Mile River and spent all day on the beach. We hunted for treasures and Matthew and Evan found the only whole sand dollar on the entire beach I'm sure. The fog rolled in for a while which is always fun and mysterious. Evan I had to fight some seagulls that were attacking our food while Matthew and Dallin took a nap. We also dug ourselves a big Evan whole and played mits (catch). When the tide went out we walked across the river and explored the caves and tunnels on the otherside.
It was a very enjoyable and relaxing day. We took off early the next morning and wandered along the coast for a while on our way home. It was a wonderful camping trip but we were sure glad to get home to our warm shower and beds.