waterfalls: Cataract Falls, Marin County Municipal Water District

date visited: January 11th, 2009

Cataract Falls is so named because it is a collection of cataracts, or individual waterfalls.





Cataract Falls can be visited from two different trailheads, one that approaches from the top, and the other from the lake below.

click here to see lower trailhead and approximate location of Cataract Falls.

I have visited the lake (reservoir) that the falls feed into several times, called Alpine Lake (no doubt a reference to the trees and hilly bits), it is one of the many water storage facilities in Marin.

here are two shots of the lake from the south, one taken on January 11th, 2009, the other sometime in May, 1995:



Alpine Lake is just a little further down the Fairfax-Bolinas Road from the trailhead for Carson Falls.

for more info on Cataract Falls, check out the entry at waterfallswest.com

Coop hits the big 55!

and also, (thanks to Garrett), I finally notice the tiny little left-facing arrow on the gas guage (a.k.a. petrol tank indicator)



(this happened on January 9th, 2009)

waterfalls: Carson Falls, Marin County Municipal Water District

date visited: December 27th, 2008 (this was our postponed Boxing Day trip)

this is a waterfall that we had previously visited for Thanksgiving, probably 10 or so years ago. It's a bit of a hike up and over some steep hills, but the view is well worth the trip.

from the top of the falls, looking down:



half way down the side, a look back at the upper-middle cascade:



a little further down (maybe 1/3 of the way down the full length of the falls)...



we continued to walk down the creek that the falls feed, encountering several more cascades, but none as grand as the upper falls.

for more info, check out the entry at waterfallswest.com

Salt Point State Park

a gorgeous little seashore, somewhere way far away from anything on the Sonoma County coast.





to get here, we took Skaggs Springs Road, which, it should be pointed out is less a "road" than a small strip of material snaking across a mountain range, through a dense forest, stopping suddenly at Highway 1.

<shiver>

(this is a bit of a delayed post, we actually visited Salt Point State Park on April 26th, 2008)

travel day

leaving for London this evening. will try to stay in touch.

LOLcharleys

my visit to Angwin, CA

so, my friend Tyler suggested I take a trip out to Angwin, California. I'm still not sure why, but I said I would, and that I'd take pictures...

this is the town's sign:


here is the town's fire department:


trees:


more trees (there are a lot of them):


the store:


a house, labelled "private residence":


a sign at the airport:


another sign at the airport:


a truck at the airport:


looking south from the main road out of town:


broken highway reflector:


the side of my car:


lake henessey through a 300mm lens (it's about six miles from where I was standing):


some trash in a field:


the sun beating down on the roadway: