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| Hiking | 5.73 Miles |
249 AEG |
| | Hiking | 5.73 Miles | 2 Hrs 27 Mns | | 2.80 mph |
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| no partners | | Did this with my cousin Kevin who lives in SF. This was his first hike since we did Redwood Regional Park in May of last year when I took him on a 10-mile hike after telling him it would be 4-5. Limantour Spit is not a grueling death march, but walking almost 6 miles on sand (even the firmer stuff down by the water) takes its toll.
There were a bunch of harbor seals at the end of the spit. The tide was low, and the spot where I saw numerous harbor seals doing their thing in the surf a month ago was now an exposed seal haulout. There were about 20 seals on the beach along with 20 more on a nearby sandbar that's only a few hundred yards from the mouth of the estuary. People are legally required to stay at least 300 feet away from all marine mammals here, and realistically we couldn't get within 500 feet without disturbing them. We saw this guy who was carrying this stout, club-like thing with a large metal hook at its end. Like a giant shark hook attached to a small baseball bat. He didn't seem to bother the seals, fortunately, but it reminded me of something used during those baby seal harvests up in Canada.
Very cloudy with temperatures in the upper 50s, but the wind wasn't too bad. |
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