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Nancy, Breanna and her dog DJ, and I did a quick walk as the Rancho Cordova Walking Meetup Group this evening.  We walked over to Rossmoore Barr and then headed home.

GPS Stats: • Odometer: 2.69 miles

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Glen, Jen, Lisa and I were the Rancho Cordova Walking Meetup Group today and I enjoyed meeting Jen and Lisa.  We headed towards the Fair Oaks Bridge today and it was a study in the stages of butterflies.  Over the last month or so, we’d been seeing a lot of black and orange caterpillars on the trail–well, they are a changing.  We saw fresh butterflies, cocoons in various stages of development and caterpillars that were holding out.  Very cool.

GPS Stats: • Odometer: 3.43 miles  • Total Time: 1:34  • Moving Time: 1:13  • Overall Average Speed 2.2 mph  • Moving Average Speed: 2.8 mph

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Day 3 in the Channel Islands National Park.  Again, a beautiful morning to walk up to.  Lisa headed out on the solo dawn hike this morning, I stayed in camp and nursed a blister on my foot.  Those plastic sandals are not meant to be walked in for several miles <grin>.  After we packed up our gear, we headed to the beach for a bit more tide-pooling before catching the boat back to the mainland.  We enjoyed a nice lunch in Ventura Harbor and then we all headed north towards home.

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Day 2 in the Channel Islands National Park.  What a nice way to wake up, it’s daybreak, birds are chirping, the perfect temperature and the glow of a sunrise that hasn’t popped over the ridge yet.  All is quiet, not another camper is stirring, so I grab my camera and plan to walk up the road just a bit and see what the other campground looks like and hope to maybe see the little foxes again while it’s quiet.  I get to the other camp and see the sign for the Potato Harbor Road and head towards it.  I get to the start of the trail and a boy is giving me the “shhh” sign… there’s a little fox on the trail between us and we both quietly watch it for awhile as it figures out how to avoid both of us.  The boy was ecstatic, he’d been up since 5am looking for the foxes and was delighted to see one.  I start walking up the trail, thinking I’ll be able to see the ocean from the top.  Well, I get to the top and can’t see the ocean, but I do see the trail spread out before me and decide, what the heck I must be half way to Potato Harbor, let’s go check it out.  It was a gorgeous walk to the end of the trail, the dawn light was just gorgeous and the temperature was darn near perfect.  Potato Harbor is a beach and cove surrounded by cliffs and there is no way to get down from the trail I was on.  I thought I heard seals barking down there, but I couldn’t see any.  As I’m heading back to camp, I realize the non-wisdom of heading out on a hike totally unprepared.  By now the sun has come up over the ridge and I am walking directly into it.  I have no hat, no water, no sunscreen and am wearing plastic sandals; thankfully it was only a couple of miles back to camp.  When I got back to camp, the others were awake and were deciding what hike to do that day.  I bowed out; they headed towards Smuggler’s Cove and I spent the day chasing shade to keep my sunburnt arms out of the sun as much as possible.  I did a little tide-pooling while they were gone and saw some starfish and pretty green sea anemones.  The rest of the crew came back from hiking and we all just hung out and relaxed.  David found a garter snake near his tent and he displayed his snake charmer skills by adeptly handling and calming the snake.  Paige won the dice game and did the appropriate funky winner’s dance.  After dark we went looking for the phosphorous fish again, but tonight, it was large fish running and jumping out of the water when the light was shone on them–very cool to watch.

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