Jan 6

We Jan 6

We left the Little town of Garberville about 11 o'clock in the morning. It's one of the small towns located on a steelhead river. Fishing is an important part of their activities.

It is amazing in the USA. We have come across numerous towns where steelhead fishing is important. However in Canada ( specifically BC) with our 2 main steelhead rivers of the Thompson River and Bella Coola; we have almost fished them out for that species.  It does not say much for our fisheries management in Canada. 

From Garberville we made a quick stop at Richardsons grove. This was a wonderful spot on the highway where the road was so narrow you could almost touch the enormous redwoods with your rearview mirror. One of the places we stopped at was very interesting carvers shop with many dozens of carvings ranging from Eagles, bears, to Wales to Bigfoot characters. It was tucked into and enormous stand on the roadside. 

From there we merged into a massive Vineyard region. The first town was Ukiah. This area reminded this somewhat of the Napa Valley but was much bigger. Some of the vineyards were equally as stately as in Napa. The Vineyard area ended in the town of Hopland. It was a quaint little town at the end of this region but we couldn't find any hop fields!

Next we were back on the ocean at Point Reyes national seashore. This is a very unique location being right on the San Andreas fault that runs right through the park in a straight line where the ocean actually creeps into it for half the distance of the fault.

Our final interesting area was called Muir Woods National Monument, about an hour south of Point Reyes. We were amazed at the number of cars parked in this spot. It was a Friday afternoon and yet they were hundreds of cars in the parking lot

It was here that representatives from countries around the world met in May 1945. The World War II had not yet wrapped up but it was Roosevelt's dream to create our United Nations based in New York that would replace the old league of Nations which had failed to prevent World War II. Also many decisions were made at this conference that resulted in ending world war two

Sadly Roosevelt passed away a couple of months before this world changing gathering. However the conference went on at Muir Woods and in October 1945 the current United Nations that we know commenced operations based in New York.

Sadly it was too late in the day for us to take a hike through the Famous redwood forests but we will definitely return.

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