Will The Real Point Reyes Please Stand Up

Hi All,

Labor Day weekend we decided to take a day trip to Point Reyes, in West Marin.  It is about an hour and a half from us and we had read so many awesome things about it.  So we set out wanting to check out the  PR Lighthouse, the town, and maybe do a little hiking.  We put Point Reyes into the GPS and off we went.  We arrive in the super cute town and Adam looks at me and says "find out where the Point Reyes Lighthouse is and we will go see that first."  I'm all on board, I put it in my phone and it says it is 40 minutes away!  Wait, what?!?!  So the lighthouse is no where near the town.  Ok, well that was one of the main things we came to see so off we went to see this lighthouse!  All the things we wanted to see were spread out  (hence the title of this blog entry).  We never did find the specific hiking trail we were looking for, maybe we will find it next time.

The star by the one is Point Reyes and where we started we ended up at the star on the left and then stopped at Drakes Bay on our way back home. 

So here are some pictures from our adventures in Point Reyes.  We really did have a great day even though we did a bunch of driving! :)

We had a nice little walk from where we parked to the lighthouse.

We even saw a deer!

There was whale watching but unfortunately we didn't see any :(

Visitors Center.  Pretty cool old building.

Mattie and the Great White Shark Skeleton!  Yikes!

We had to go down about a million stairs.

Cool old desk.

And chair

We remembered Mattie's camera so she took pictures like crazy! 

That blue spot is me and Mattie!

About 2 seconds after I took this picture she fell and scraped her  knee.  She cried so long I thought we were going to have to amputate. 

After the Point Reyes Lighthouse we found a beach close by and had a nice lunch.

Here lately Mattie loves to pick up feathers.  I gag every time.  

After the beach we drove to Drakes Bay.  It was so pretty. DB is famous for their oysters(gross no thanks) There was a little trail that we hiked to a cliff overlook.  We also hiked to see the elephant seals on a beach in the cove.

Drakes Bay

Still taking pictures.

This was the beach where the seals were, but they are hard to see :(

 We really enjoyed our day in Point Reyes.  I think we totally need to go back.  I feel like there were things we missed.  Great family day seeing California!

XOXO