I woke on Central Daylight Time and ventured out for a look at Crescent City’s Battery Point lighthouse under the setting moon.

Crow and Gull wait for the fog to break and the sun to come out.

As the day brightens the ocean relentlessly pounds the beach.

A serendipitous seaside chat with a local resident named Bob, originally from Carbondale IL, brightened the morning.

I ventured onto the Tall Trees Trail for my first hike among the redwoods.

It was a fungus Friday hike on a Tuesday.

The neatest feature of Redwoods National Park is Howland Hill Road.

The Redwood Trees are crowding the road its entire length.

You can’t always fit a Redwood tree into the whole photo but it works here.

The Grove of Titans was worth another hike into the woods.

Down at eye level ferns provided ground cover and started to take over fallen trees.

I drove the Howland Hill Road both directions.

Long shadows and sunbeams.

Back to the beach to watch the sun set over the Pacific.