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7/28/12

Castlehaven estuary

A drive down to Castlehaven Sat evening to kayak about in the sheltered waters of the estuary there. 

a view of the estuary from the top of a hill with hairpin turns on one of which we passed a VW bus circa 1970 painted black with a camo roof. It made us nervous.

just before the sun dropped behind a distant hill.

after it did the water became glassy.

peter taking footage with his iphone....

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the tide was low and the banks were exposed showing gnarled roots of trees and mountains of kelp.

which draped this dead tree completely

geology upheaved and fractured

Bombarded with Spanish canon balls in 16 something and clobbered by a ferocious storm in 1911.
Ivy, meanwhile, has been quietly climbing the walls and forcing its way in between the stones, undermining the whole structure which almost certainly contributed to its partial collapse following the storm.

Moonful

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