Salt Point State Park

Posted by Karen on 08-Feb-2009

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I woke up at Salt Point State Park and after having breakfast and packing up the tent, I went down to the beach to explore the bluffs a bit.  I saw some skittish deer on the way to South Gerstle Cove; usually deer in the state parks aren’t nearly that skittish.  The visitor center was closed, but I continued on and walked along the bluff for a few hours, mesmerized by the sandstone colors and tafoni shapes that cover the area.  Tafoni is the Italian word for “cavern” and shows up in the sandstone as pits and holes, and ridges that have been worn away by the waves–very interesting stuff.  Discovered a skeleton of some unknown creature and saw some seals and a few people, but for the most part it was the coastal rock structures that kept me intrigued.