We've been waiting and waiting for the mouth of the Gualala River to close. Rick and I checked the river late yesterday and it was still open, though the spillway had narrowed. Later this morning we found it closed and the lagoon filling up. Here are some photos from today, taken from the Gualala Bluff Trail.

The very long, skinny spillway that flowed south, and then emptied west into the ocean, stayed open until today. This was an unusual configuration of the river mouth.

With the river "closed" to the ocean, the lagoon will fill up, like a bathtub. Kayaking will be stellar now!

Sunny and breezy here on the Mendonoma coast today!