Turtles

We finally took a hike out to the new Harmony Headlands state park on Sunday. It's a very nice, not very strenuous 3 mile round trip walk. While the ocean is pretty, the coast there looks like much of the surrounding coastline. The hike out, in my opinion, is more interesting. You walk through a very nice valley with some large, dramatic - albeit dead - trees. There was an almost dried up lakebed, and some really picturesque hills.

At the very beginning of the hike is an very old stone bridge you walk over. The water underneath is completely covered with some type of plant (which you can see in the picture - click to enlarge.) As we were looking, we noticed all the turtles. You can see about five in this picture. A few had already made their way out for a swim before we took this. I've never seen a turtle around here before and didn't even know we had any!