Posted on 05/15/2013 2:53:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Stupid Salazar, he’s drawn attention to the fact that they have SEALS there ~ and they are good to eat!
Before I took care of a friend, for 6 years, I use to love staying at the Point Reyes Seashore Lodge. Had a great room on the second floor that I’d always stay in.
I’d hike out the back of the Lodge and over the Drakes Bay. Awesome, Awesome views. There was a little place that sold barbecue tuna kabobs and oysters. The spicey ones were the best.
I’d just grab a handful and then sit on the ground looking out across the bay.
Beautiful country, magnificent views.
So the Enviro- nuts think closing an otherwise harmless Oyster farm that will encourage oyster harvesting from the wild which will deprive real Willife is better for the enviroment.
Un F______ing believable!!!
The right call here is pretty obvious, but its funny P.C. San Franciscans are tying themselves in knots trying to figure out what is the “correct” view.
/johnny
I think if I were a food snob and knew to ask where oyster came from before I ate them I’d definitely go with Drakes Bay for purity. Ain’t nothing around there that pollutes the waters unlike Humboldt and other areas on the Coast.
I gotta get up there again, STAT. This time of year everything smells wonderful as the blooms for the flowers and grasses continue into July.
With the micro climates every few hundred yards it can all change and feel like you are somewhere else.
The meadows, rolling hills, deer, mountain lions and supposedly bear, though I have never seen one on the coastal ranges, all make for an awesome trip, if only for a day.
Love to hike and My arm is just about ready to take a backpack.
You are seriously putting me at risk of playing hookie from work.
This place isn’t just harmless. They are great stewards of the land and take care not to junk it up with shells and are very careful about sparingly use of motor craft as they manage the herds(or whatever a gaggle of oysters are called, maybe beds).
Humboldt Bay produces more oysters but, the waters have old oil and mining well by products that leak into the waters. Not an expert but, judging by the crud you can see right off the road and knowing it has to get into the waters, I just have to think that mother nature can only scrub so much.
There is nothing like that around Tomales Bay or Drakes Bay.
shiite Dude. If you can hike and hold your own, I’d go.
The room at the hotel this time of year ought to be pretty cheap and we can eat on the cheap.
The inn across the street from the hotel has an awesome restaurant. I took a friend who was one of the premier chefs there once and she raved about the place.
I guess the chef at the inn was pretty well known and he had called the corporate life quits for a while(I forget the guy but, we ran into him at some restaurant in Vegas a few years ago). Anyway, this guy was into sustainability and I think fancied himself as getting in Thomas Keller’s vision.
Nothing, on the plate came off a truck. Oh, he might have gone up the road to another garden to get what he wanted if he didn’t have enough but, he knew where the food came from and how it was grown.
Anyway, this is the room I use to stay in. It’s on the second floor and view out back is phenomenal in the morning:
http://www.pointreyesseashore.com/lodging_fireplace.htm
I’ll bet it can be had for less than the $215 they are currently posting it for.
If’n you gotz a gurlfriend and want to make one hell of an impression, this is the place.
I wouldn’t go to the Timber Cove 1st(http://www.timbercoveinn.com/ ), which is up the road. I love the place but, many women get weirded out after a while from the racoons.
Sure, they are real cute at first and stupidly, they will toss the critters bits of bread or fruit but, then they won’t go away from your balcony, making it unusable.
No, if I were to take a lady somewhere, Olema is the place and we can do my hike or take a slow meandering drive to the Timber Line for lunch or even dinner.
But, heh, we’re guys.
If we go you get the bed, I take the floor or sleep outside on the balcony, which I paid good money to do a couple of times. It’s like camping without the tent and no worry a mountain lion is sneaking around.
Well, that’s a drag. They aren’t on any of the travel sites and this weekend or next takes them into the season, which means way higher rates than currently posted.
No problemo. My shoulder ain’t really ready and won’t be til September and that is a great time to go.
If you want to go and want to bring another Freeper or two that can handle themselves in the woods and can read a map, October would be a great time and off season.
But...if I read the artile right, the gov’t is trying to force the Oyster farm out BECAUSE it is “pristine” and wants to preserve it’s unique nature.
???????????????
I stayed at the Timber Cove for a night a couple years ago. Pretty and fairly secluded. I think it was about .5 hours north of Bodega Bay. I don’t remember any racoons.
Yep. sits right on a racoon preserve.
Exsctly Fking it.
I would eat anything from Drakes, Tamales and Bodega. Nothing around to foul the waters and everyone are good stewards.
Damnit. Now I’m hungry.
Maybe I’ll go to to Rocky Point Restaurant tomorrow, 10 miles south of Carmel. Food ain’t great. I just like the location.
We must have old copies because I can’t find any of that crap in mine, either.
My wife and I spent a night at Timber Cove before we got married. Awesome views from the showers.
The food isn’t great? Too bad. I have been to Nepenthe, but I can’t remember if I ate anything, or whether it was good or bad. But it was a great spot to relax and they had some jazz combo, as part of the Big Sur jazz festival. (Which I think is no longer there?)
Well, I don’t mean to imply it’s bad. the only thing I ever ate there was hamburger patties, french fries and Bloody Mary’s.
Nepenthe, Ventana, Sierra del Mar are great ideas too.
What to do?
What to do?
What to do?
You’re a Freeper with great taste. We ought to get together and solve the worlds problems some time.
Gotta go walk my miles.
See yuh.
From the article;
“”Wilderness is not necessarily something that looks back, it looks forward,” says White. Government-designated wilderness is about preserving something for the future, not trying to reclaim the past, and it can require tough decisions. “To preserve one thing you very often have to eradicate something else,” he says.
Note carefully this line, “To preserve one thing you very often have to eradicate something else,”.
To save the Republic, it is necessary to eradicate those who will not live within the bounds of the Constitution. Either try, convict and then either execute or exile those who refuse to accept the Constitution defined bounds on behavior.
That enviro-activist pictured pictured walking on the beach is also deliberately walks on the Constitution. His kind will also happily walk over your rights and your childrens rights.
As the enviro-activist said, sometimes eradication is unavoidable.
That time approaches.
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