Local streams and rivers were beneficiaries of the late May rains. Ruth Alexander photographed the beautiful cascades along Salal Creek, a public access trail on The Sea Ranch.
I did a post a couple of years ago on how to find the Salal Trail. Here is a link to that post: http://www.mendonomasightings.com/tag/salal-trail/
You will learn the trail actually starts at Gualala Point Regional Park.
Thanks to Ruth for allowing me to share her photo with you here.
John Batchelder saw a pod of between eight and ten Humpback Whales yesterday from his home on The Sea Ranch. He photographed this adult Humpback breaching.
We think it's a female because right behind her was this calf, also breaching.
After John took these photos more rain moved in. Today, however, is sunny, giving us a chance to dry out a bit!
Thanks to John for allowing me to share his photos with you here.
Shirley Mitchell photographed the beautiful scene at Black Point Beach on The Sea Ranch. A sea of Goldfields on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
In this photo Shirley photographed some pink Butter 'n' Eggs, aka Johnny Tuck, with the Goldfields
We had a nice rain event yesterday, Thursday, and we have another predicted for Saturday. The late rains are sure to replenish the wildflowers, allowing them to bloom longer.
Thanks to Shirley for allowing me to share her photos with you here.
A young, male Mountain Lion with a tracking collar was caught on camera walking along a path on The Sea Ranch on March 7th. Bob Van Syoc wrote, “I saw this young lion strolling by our garage. It was very relaxed with some sort of collar.”
This particular Mountain Lion, P14 or "Paul", was collared by Dr. Quinton Martins and the Living with Lions team in early January. Martins and his team are part of Audubon Canyon Ranch, a non-profit environmental organization. When the news of Bob’s sighting reached Dr. Martins, he rushed up the coast on Friday, as he had lost contact on Jan. 21 with P14’s tracking collar.
A cadre of coast residents helped him over the next three days finally track Paul. Dr. Martins was able to get a GPS download of this cougar’s movements, which showed he had traveled nearly 200 miles since January 7th. You can follow this story at www.egret.org.
Then on March 21st, Mitch Sugarman's motion detection camera videoed Paul at the top of Sunset Drive in Anchor Bay. You can watch the two videos below. Thanks to Bob and Mitch for allowing me to share the photo and videos with you here.
Paul is seen March 21, the collared mountain lion by Mitch Sugarman
Allen Vinson was photographing some of the sights at The Sea Ranch recently. He saw a beautiful wave with rooster tails - the top water being blown off.
The sun was just coming up behind the trees, creating beautiful sunbeams.
And Allen found one of the Mendonoma coast's many waterfall.
Thanks to Allen for allowing me to share his photos with you here. If you'd like to see more of Allen's nature photography, here is a link: http://allenvinson.smugmug.com/
Waterfalls should be full for this weekend after today's rain. We received a solid inch of the wet stuff.