Nature Friday From MY Ocean!!

 

On our last camping trip,while staying at the Santa Cruz/Monterey KOA, we took a day trip to Greyhound Rock County Park and spent some time admiring MY ocean(aka the Pacific Ocean)! Greyhound Rock is just north of Davenport California, and is named after the big flat rock in the photo above...although we're not sure why.

 

 

 There is a GIANT mountain we had to climb down to get there,but WOW,was it worth it!!

 

 

 On one side, was this beautiful inlet surrounded by cliffs....

 

 

Isn't it beautiful??

 

 

 On the other side there were pretty tide pools!

 

 

These two seagulls kept their eyes open for crabbies, but we didn't see them catch anything.

 

 

 We had a great time playing in the sand!

 

 We also saw some cool Ice Plant flowers, there was this pretty yellow one....

 

 

 and this beautiful purple flower with the yellow middle!!

 

 

Here is a picture of Daddy  and Rosy as we walked back up the hill in front of a hill of ice plants(and  flowers)!

 

 There were also bunches of yellow lupine flowers!!

 

 

 Both the ice plant flowers and the lupine looked especially beautiful in front of my ocean!

 

 

I have to say there is nothing quite like a day at the ocean to make me smile!!

 

 

 

We hope you  all see some nature that makes you smile this weekend!!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Happy Travel Movie Tuesday!

Friday Morning we packed up our campsite at the Cloverdale/Healdsburg KOA and headed south! Our destination? The Santa Cruz/Monterey KOA!!

 

The ride seemed to take 87 hours!!

Oh Arty, it was only 5 hours or so, and we did stop and take a break for lunch!

Anyway...when we got to the campground, Daddy got CeCe ready and we did some sniff-axing!

That's a cross between sniffing and relaxing(in case you didn't know).

We actually used this campsite as sort of a hotel room. We spent the two full days we were here in two other locations. One we will be showing you this Nature Friday and the other we are saving for next Tuesday. 

We did spend some time hanging out at the Campground though! 

You wouldn't believe all the squirrels hanging around!!! One of the best activities about camping is the wildlife, right?? Well, we REALLY enjoyed squirrel watching.

Here is a little video of some morning squirrel watching we did!

You can also watch it HERE on YouTube

Another favorite activity of ours was "Strollin'" through the campground!  Arty thinks he is King of the World when he gets to ride in his stroller!

 

 

 

Watch this and you can see for yourself!

You can also watch it HERE on YouTube

 

(To answer a few of your questions..Yes, this was Dory's and then Rosy's stroller. We bring it on most of Arty's walks now. He really enjoys walking, but sometimes we(Rosy and pawrents) want go farther than he can go, especially if it's warm outside. So instead of cutting the walk short, Arty just gets to go "strollin'" for the remainder of the walk)

The last night at the campground we got to have a CAMPFIRE!! 

The temperatures were pretty chilly, and there was a breeze that made it feel cooler so it was nice to have a fire that would keep us warm while we sat outside!

We just had to watch out for the smoke! It seemed to follow us where ever we sat!!

There were even campfire snackies!! The pawrents had s'mores while we had our favorite snack, Greenies, in front of the campfire.

 

What a pawsome way to  finish up a great camping trip!!

But this isn't the end of our tail, so to speak

(Teeheehee)

Stay tuned on Nature Friday to see the first of the fun places we went while we were staying along the Central California Coast!!! 

 

We are joining Sandee at  Comedy Plus for the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!