January 21, 2022 – Eureka: Big Lagoon and Sequoia Park

 

 Title: January 21, 2022 – Eureka: Big Lagoon and Sequoia Park

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I slept long-finally got up a little before 8am. David and I went for a walk around his neighborhood. While my two mile walk in Fresno has only a slight rise, his dips down into a ravine, then climbs up the other side. This old man was huffing and puffing by the time we reached the top. It was another ¾ of a mile walk back to his house. By this time, Sherri was up. David fixed us French toast in-I consumed a hearty amount.

David "Harvesting"^*.MONSTER agates

After getting cleaned up, we set out for a bit of beach walking. David has a county park he likes to go to called Big Lagoon. It has a $3 entrance fee for seniors-at times, it is good to be old. We park and then walk north on the beach for a ways. Seems like it is more of a stroll, but a bit more challenging. The sand is pretty loose. It seems like it is a real effort to walk on the sand and gravel. David occupied himself with looking for agates. He found several; I only found what he called sugar stones-non-clear clear pepples. We stopped at a log between the ocean and Big Lagoon and had lunch. I sat and did a cat nap after lunch. There are ducks and a couple kayaks on the lagoon. The beach is pleasant enough, but the ocean looked like if it caught a person, it would chew them up and probably not spit them out. It was both very silty as well as rough.

We walked back to the car. Then David drove to Costco to pick up some supplies. I go in with him. When we get back to his house, I take an hour nap before being woken up to go for another walk at Sequoia Park.

Andrea got out of her substitute teacher job about 3:15. Her school is close to Sequoia Park. We drove there-she was waiting for us. Andrea

led us along several trails. Lawrence met up with us about ten minutes into our walk. We walked down to the duck pond. Then Andrea led us further to the west and around that end of the park, back up the street and then back down to the duck pond. We figured out that the signage was due to a Frisbee golf tournament on Saturday. Then we came back next to the zoo, before heading to the parking lot.

 

 

David left to get dinner ready and Andrea left to pick up her car. This left Lawrence to chauffeur Sherri and I. He took us to their AirBnB where we talked for a time, until dinner was ready at David’s. David made us a BBQ teriyaki chicken. Good stuff. We talked for awhile until Andrea and Lawrence left. We then went to bed.

Background

Agates. common semiprecious silica mineral, a variety of chalcedony that occurs in bands of varying colour and transparency. Agate is essentially quartz, and its physical properties are in general those of that mineral. From the Britannica web site

^*David prefered the term "Harvesting" of the agates rather than the original term of beachcombing.


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