I couldn’t get a very good image of the highlight of our adventures around Mendocino today.  We had made our plans expecting to get see plenty of color at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden in Fort Bragg… and we did.  This is the height of Rhododendron Season. After a couple of hours and picnic lunch there, we drove down the coast a few miles to the Point Cabrillo Light Station between Caspar and Mendocino.  There was plenty of color there, too.  The Pacific Coast at that historic lighthouse was perfect today. 

Between guest cottages and the light house at the light station a calm inlet from the wild Pacific serves as nursery for newborn seals. Today a mother seal and another adult seal were obviously teaching a young seal what seals need to know to survive.  While we watched, they spent the time, adults and infant, diving, staying down for awhile, then resurfacing to breathe. Often the young seal nuzzled its mother then turned down again as if to demonstrate that it could do what it was being taught to do. I was sorry I didn't have my camera with the long lens. 

Life is good!