Partington Cove

738 February 27, 2022 Partington Cove

I started some laundry and then walked in between switching loads from washer to dryer. It was a very effective use of time! I wanted to be able to play the rest of the day!

Today we went south on 1, again on the snake shaped road. We stopped at an overlook. The crystal clear shimmering water that gradually changes from turquoise to green and then out further to navy, the spouting whales, the bobbing and floating otters, the craggy cliffs, the evergreen fragrance, the churning sand and smashing waves, the buzzards and hawks and ravens soaring, the cormorants and gulls feeding…this is a very special place.

We have passed many elegant homes on these bluffs. I wonder who might live in these houses. The compounds are fenced in and gated with warning signs and security cameras. No matter what I imagine…there is no one living there that has a better life than I. I am so grateful. I have always wanted to see this part of the California Coast. We have spent days exploring and we are still not tired of it. We spent some time hopping from one overlook to the next.

We drove to Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. We walked along McWay Creek and through a tunnel under Highway 1. We took the short walk to the overlook at McWay Falls. The water falls 80 feet to the beach below.

We drove again, back to Partington Cove Trail. This is a hike into a canyon that leads to the beach. It begins at 300 feet of elevation and descends for 1 mile.

We walked through a grove of redwoods.

This tunnel was constructed about 100 years ago by John Partington. The tunnel was used to transport tanbark trees from the nearby slopes down to waiting ships in the cove. Tannic acid was derived from these trees and was used to tan leather.