June 5, 2011 - Crescent City, CA
Sunday was a great day as the sun was actually shining today. We took the dogs to Crescent Beach by Crescent City. Camille and Cody really enjoyed running around on the beach and smelling everything. Cody even found some dead crabs and decided he needed to taste one – Yuck! There were not very many shells on the beach but we did find some nice sand dollars. A fter the dogs got tired we drove to Point St. George, an overlook where you can see the St. George Reef Lighthouse. This lighthouse was built after the steam driven side-paddle wheeler, Brother Jonathan, was lost in stormy seas in 1865. More than two hundred lives were lost and this wreck remains the worst shipping disaster on the Pacific Coast. The lighthouse was built 6 miles off the coast and was the most expensive lighthouse built at a cost of $750,000. That was a lot of money in the 1860’s. The lighthouse is in the center of this picture but is hard to ...