Battery Point Lighthouse, Crescent City, CA

Friday, May 29, 2015 - continued

Next we went to Crescent City Visitors Center and got a map showing all the points of interest down the coast almost to Eureka, CA.

This barrel of flowers was greeting us at the visitors center.  I really liked the deep purplish blue flowers.

Next we decided to go visit the Battery Point Lighthouse.  It is only open during low tide.

Now you can see why.  This is the path to the lighthouse. In another 10 minutes the path was mostly free of water.

Flowers again!  These were growing outside the lighthouse.

This plant was also growing closer to the lighthouse.  It has really fat triangular shaped leaves with these pretty yellow flowers.

This is an oyster catcher bird.  They are not considered rare but they are counting these birds to determine whether to consider them rare or not.  They are noisy too!

The obvious seagulls were around also.

This is the island the lighthouse is on.  Tic took this picture from a far distance.

This is the walkway up to the lighthouse.  The wood carving is supposed to be a gray whale.

These buoys had washed up and been collected.  They are hanging in the tree just behind the lighthouse.

The waves crashing against the rocks near the lighthouse were mesmerizing.

We drove further down the coast and saw sea lions, whales and elk.  I'm going to put those pictures in the next post.