Path blocked
We woke up Wednesday morning to beautiful sunny skies and warm weather and decided immedatly that meant it was a day to go to the coast. We made our way to Tomahawk beach which has fine white sand, clear blue water and beautiful, rugged cliffs around it. It wasn't really warm enough for swimming and water is cold here. You sometimes can see Icebergs floating off the coast- we are that close to Antartica. We did however, enjoy digging in the sand and getting some vitamin D in the form of sunshine.
After playing in the sand for a bit, the clouds started moving in a bit and the wind picked up, so we decided to drive around and see a bit more of the Oertago penisula. The goal was to get to Allen's beach which didn't look far on the map, but turned out to be a bit of an adventure. The roads were very narrow and windey and a bit scarey. We would driving near the edge of a very tall cliff and there were no gaurd rails. After a bunch of wrong turns and a lunch stop at a vey nice cafe we finally found Allen's beach.
According to the guidebook, this is beach is one of the ones that seals and sea lions sometimes hang out at. To get to the beach we had to hike through a sheep pasture and through some sand dunes filled with amazing smelling yellow flowers. When go to the beach, it looked like it was a bust. There were lots of foot prints, but no signs of any sea lions or seals. Mike took a walk way down the beach and past some cliffs and found one seal lion napping on the rocks and came and got Lil and I. We walked back the main part of the beach, but Mike thought there might be some more beyond where we had been, but in order to get there you had to get a bit wet, so Lil and I stayed on the main part of the beach and looked for sea shells. We found a lot and wandered around for awhile and there was no sign of Mike anywhere. He had been gone a LONG time when he finally emerged at a run. Turns out he found one small sea lion and one very large sea lion found him. He walked right by it looking at the other one and when they are sleeping the do just blend in with the rocks. When he came by it again to go back it was not happy. It barked at him and then moved to block him from getting back to the main part of the beach. The two of them had a stare down for a while, Mike clamored over some rocks to get some distance between them and just took off at a run and thankfully was able to outrun him. A day he won't forget anytime soon!
After playing in the sand for a bit, the clouds started moving in a bit and the wind picked up, so we decided to drive around and see a bit more of the Oertago penisula. The goal was to get to Allen's beach which didn't look far on the map, but turned out to be a bit of an adventure. The roads were very narrow and windey and a bit scarey. We would driving near the edge of a very tall cliff and there were no gaurd rails. After a bunch of wrong turns and a lunch stop at a vey nice cafe we finally found Allen's beach.
According to the guidebook, this is beach is one of the ones that seals and sea lions sometimes hang out at. To get to the beach we had to hike through a sheep pasture and through some sand dunes filled with amazing smelling yellow flowers. When go to the beach, it looked like it was a bust. There were lots of foot prints, but no signs of any sea lions or seals. Mike took a walk way down the beach and past some cliffs and found one seal lion napping on the rocks and came and got Lil and I. We walked back the main part of the beach, but Mike thought there might be some more beyond where we had been, but in order to get there you had to get a bit wet, so Lil and I stayed on the main part of the beach and looked for sea shells. We found a lot and wandered around for awhile and there was no sign of Mike anywhere. He had been gone a LONG time when he finally emerged at a run. Turns out he found one small sea lion and one very large sea lion found him. He walked right by it looking at the other one and when they are sleeping the do just blend in with the rocks. When he came by it again to go back it was not happy. It barked at him and then moved to block him from getting back to the main part of the beach. The two of them had a stare down for a while, Mike clamored over some rocks to get some distance between them and just took off at a run and thankfully was able to outrun him. A day he won't forget anytime soon!
No comments:
Post a Comment