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Little Black Sand Beach
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Lighthouse
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Peekaboo ! Little Black Sand Beach is a great place to stroll.
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The Cape Mendocino Lighthouse. Read about it by clicking on this URL.
http://www.rudyalicelighthouse.net/CalLts/CapeMndo/CapeMndo.htm
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launching boats
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clean fish
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glider up high
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Launching some local fishing boats at low tide
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This great facility ensures that the smelly stuff doesn't have to make it into your kitchen! Join one of the charter boats, and they even do the cleaning for you.
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Before they come down to the Shelter Cove airport, the paragliders enjoy some fabulous views from waaaay up there!
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bear harbor
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Shelter Cove Sunset
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Glider at airport
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Bear Harbor ... just a short drive from Shelter Cove ... has some great scenery too.
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You could fill volumes of photo albums with shots like this, if you spend more time at Shelter Cove
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Paragliders launch from high up in Shelter Cove and entertain themselves -and all of us, too
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Sunset from high up
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Shelter Cove
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planes on the strip
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We could have an album of nothing but sunsets ... here's another beauty
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Seen from the air, with the King Range in the background
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From Piper Cubs to Lear Jets, we get lots of visitors at our "airport"
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Little Black Sand Beach
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Lost Coast Hikers
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Lost Coast Trail
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Hikers leave the Mattole River, on their hike of the Lost Coast
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Now, you know why they could not build Highway 1 along here, and why it is the "lost" coast.
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Lost Coast Trail, again
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"Whale's Tail"
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Aerial View
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These hikers may walk 24 miles, from the Mattole River to Shelter Cove, on the black sand Lost Coast Trail.
No highway traffic, but watch out for Bears!
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Take a walk out to the end - where you can see the surf crashing below - but please be careful.
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Shelter Cove's airstrip is very popular with private pilots. In good weather, they fly in from North, South, and East
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Roosevelt Elk
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Teddy would have been proud of this specimen. We're all very happy that Theodore Roosevelt, along with John Muir, began the tradition of preserving natural beauty in America's West ... and we have the King Range surrounding Shelter Cove.
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