{"id":87,"date":"2006-05-11T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T02:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=87"},"modified":"2006-05-11T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T02:20:32","slug":"camping-in-point-reyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/11\/camping-in-point-reyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping In Point Reyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I went camping with my son Rudy at Point Reyes this week. We backpacked into the Coast Camp, an easy one hour hike.<\/p>\n

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It was lovely, right by the ocean, with one giant eucalyptus tree. It felt like had a soul.<\/p>\n

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Rudy managed to dam up a stream that wandered across the beach there, great success, he dragged one log, dug some sand, and the dam was in place — at least for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

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The beach near the Coast Camp is called Sculptured Beach; the steady wind eats funny round canyons into the sandy cliffs.<\/p>\n

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And the erosion makes big patterns.<\/p>\n

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We wanted to see how far down the coast we could hike on the beach. We came to this hole in the rock that we had to go through.<\/p>\n

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It seemed feasible if you took off your clothes and carried them high overhead. I went first, and ended up getting totally soaked. My sun hat floated back through the gate which was all Rudy saw of me for a minute. He said, “In movies that’s always a bad sign.”<\/p>\n

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We made it down the beach to where there was a wall we really couldn’t get around. We found a dead fish there, maybe a salmon.<\/p>\n

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My catch.<\/p>\n

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Springs were pouring down the cliffs, making little altars to Gaia.<\/p>\n

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And the sedimentary rocks had stripes.<\/p>\n

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We had to climb up a creekbed to get to the tops of the cliffs again.<\/p>\n

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I love being in interface zones, sky meets land and earth meets ocean.<\/p>\n

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Nature is always even better than I expect. Especially the beach.<\/p>\n

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On the way back I saw a rock that reminded me of a giant duck, also of Easter Island. Did Carl Barks ever paint an Easter Island statue of a duck? Maybe I should. I'm setting a scene on Easter Island right now in my novel — not that I've been thinking about it the last few days.<\/p>\n

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There was a rock like a castle near the campsite, we walked up there near sunset.<\/p>\n

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A lot of deer roamed around our campsite, also quail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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