From our Anchor Bay perch, this is what the sunset looked like last night.
Just lovely, sunsets are the gift that keeps on giving.
Yesterday, and again today, the weather has been spectacular...spectacular if you love sunny, wind-free days. We know it won't last, so let's enjoy it for now.
Many coast residents, and visitors too I would imagine, photographed the sunset on September 22. Tricia Schuster was one of them, photographing near her Sea Ranch home.
Paul Brewer also photographed the sunset, this from the vantage of Gualala.
And I photographed it too, a little further north of Paul, from our home in Anchor Bay.
Autumn is know for beautiful sunsets, as storms to our north bring clouds, but this one from the last day of summer was one to remember.
Thanks to Tricia and Paul for allowing me to share their photos with you here.
We need the onshore breezes to return to blow away the smoke that has enveloped the coast. The forecast shows they should arrive...may it be soon!
Rick and I ventured out into the storm to take a look at the Gualala River. We received 4.55 inches of rain yesterday, and the watershed received much more. Here's what it looked like around noon today.
The Gualala River Bridge has never flooded, according to local expert Steve McLaughlin. Steve said in the early 1980's it came within a few feet of the bridge deck, but it didn't flood. It's not expected to flood during this storm either. But here's a look at it - I took these photosfrom the bend in the road at Gualala Point Regional Park.
Highway 1 is closed north of Point Arena due to flooding of the Garcia River. You can get reports on this closure at this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/236967076730512/
As this morning, we have received 42 inches of the wet stuff - rain! - season to date. No drought here, not this year. Hooray!
A big, wet fogbank rolled in two weeks ago, dropped a lot of moisture, and then pulled back. When it pulled back, a beautiful, huge fogbow appeared just north of Fish Rocks. I rushed outside to take a few photos, as I knew it wouldn’t last long.
Fogbows are also called white rainbows, but this one actually had some color to it. Not vibrant like a rainbow, but definitely there was color. At one point it arched all the way across sky, rainbow-like, but I couldn’t capture it all with my camera. But it is stored in my memory.
Here is a photo of the first fogbow I had ever seen. It was much smaller than the one above.
Fogbows are rare, so I was thrilled to see another one.
As it usually does, the high inland temperatures coaxed the fog back to the coast. Today it is fifteen degrees cooler at our house than yesterday. Hello fog, my old friend!
Peter Cracknell took a beautiful photo of fog on the coast from Highway One. A bicyclist is taking a break.
Here's a recent photo I took at Gualala Point Regional Park. A finger of fog reaches for the town of Gualala.
Thanks to Peter for allowing me to share his photo with you here.