Tag Archives: Gualala Point Regional Park

•

Ben Angwin was at Gualala Point Regional Park when the fog started to roll in. He had a unique view of a fogbow, one over land rather than the ocean.

Ben said his camera could "see" it better than his eyes. I've noticed this too and it's helped me see them with the naked eyes!

Lots of rain has been hitting the Mendonoma Coast. I have 1.65 inches in my gauge since it started late yesterday, which brings my total to 49.55 inches. 50 inches is a "normal" wet winter. We are definitely going to hit 50 inches as it's currently raining and more rain is headed our way...with some thunderclouds. Yikes!

•

Michael Coustier was watching the action as the Western Gull managed to snag an Ochre Sea Star for his/her meal.

Michael  wrote, “Walking the Gualala Point Regional Park, I saw this Western gull wedged between a couple of rocks.  It looked...odd.  I waited for a moment for him to pop up and saw he was carrying this sea star. I watched him struggle to ingest the sea star for many minutes - it was pretty comical watching him attempt various positions to get the sea star to go down.”

MCOUSTIER@PROTONMAIL.COM
MCOUSTIER@PROTONMAIL.COM

I guess we'll have to file this one under the title, "Where there's a will, there's a way!"

Thanks to Michael for allowing me to share his photos with you here.

We've had some downpours here today and have received over an inch of rain. I'll report totals with my next post!

•

Michael Coustier wrote, “[Last] weekend, the wife and I were in the Gualala Point Regional Park enjoying a walk and maybe hoping to see some whales. I was busy scanning the horizon with my camera when my wife (using binoculars) says, "What’s that bird on the edge?" I struggled for a minute to find what she was pointing out, but eventually found the bird - a pretty common Red-tailed Hawk. What was less common was watching him fly off with his lunch snack.”

The short tail and color of the rodent looks like the hawk caught a vole.

Thanks to Michael for allowing me to share his photos with you here.

Another lovely, dry day here today, with no wind. Temps close to 70 degrees!

•

The sun came out briefly late this afternoon and I saw  a glimpse of a rainbow to the east. During the last series of storms there were multiple late afternoon rainbows one day, and many people photographed them. Joan Rhine got this double rainbow in Gualala.

And Seve Cardosi got this one as she crossed the Gualala River Bridge. See how full the river is, and how muddy from the storms.

Carolyn Case was happy to find this afternoon rainbow at Gualala Point Regional Park.

Tomorrow I will show you some more from that day, including rainbows and a giraffe at B Bryan Preserve in Point Arena!

Thanks to Joan, Seve and Carolyn, aka CC, for allowing me to share their photos with you here.

Lots of rain today. The main storm seems to have passed late this afternoon, with showers at dusk. We've had six inches since the series of storms began on Jan. 1st. and a little over 30 inches season to date. The forecast says we will have a string of dry days ahead after the remnants of today's storm moves out. This could be a GREAT time to visit the Mendonoma Coast.

•

Rozanne Rapozo saw this driftwood art several weeks ago. She wrote, "We have some very creative beachcombers!  A friend spotted this on the beach a day or two earlier and then alerted us.  We saw it originally from the bluff at Gualala Point Regional Park and immediately had to go down on to the beach to  photograph it."

"Needless to say, I was taken aback by the creativity involved, from finding the ‘head’ and then carefully creating the skeleton by selecting appropriately sized ‘bones’ in varying lengths to build the dinosaur body.  Too bad this wasn’t done as part of a contest, because it clearly would have won first prize! Thanks go out to the person or persons who did it!”

And thanks to Rozanne for photographing it so we can see it too, and for allowing me to share her photograph with you here.

Warm, no wind, high wispy clouds, a beautiful sunrise...it's close to a perfect day here on the Mendonoma Coast!