point reyes

today we took a little family trip up to point reyes. point reyes is a funny shaped peninsula that encloses a large inland bay. it includes small mountains and lush forests, and both ocean and inland bay beaches. predicting the fog patterns at point reyes is about as easy as predicting the fog in our neighborhood (e.g. impossible). this morning, although it was foggy at home, we decided to cross our fingers and hope it would clear by the time we got up there. well . . . not quite . . . it was definitely foggy at the ocean beaches. ava didn't seem to care much, and had a grand old time cooking up soup to feed to her snakes inside her driftwood tee-pee, which frequently needed defending from stick-stealing enemies.

after we'd had our fill of fog, we switched sides of the peninsula to visit heart's desire beach - a very toddler friendly beach on tamales bay. despite the warmth and sunshine, ava still wasn't too sure about the temperature of the water ("too cold!"), but i eventually lured her in. and, eventually, she forgave daddy for invading her foggy fort. full pic gallery here.