Another sunny day in Willits this morning. Big plans for the humans while Bella and I stayed and guarded the home front. They drove up to Fort Bragg on Highway 20 through the redwoods.
The plan was to visit the famous “Sea Glass Beach.” It was very a very foggy day at the beach. They learned that long ago all of the trash from the fort was just dumped into the ocean. Lots of bottles, trash and even automobiles were tossed over the cliffs. Eventually all that glass became sea glass and was deposited on the shore. It’s all still there, piles of it, but impossible to collect due to the rugged and dangerous coastline. The sea was wild and no one was able to climb near the beach.
Plan “B” was to get a hot cup of coffee and explore some of the town. But then, they saw the “Guest House Museum” which looked like an interesting place to visit. The three story house was built completely with redwood in 1892. It was a showplace home for the Johnson family, the owners of the Union Lumber Company. The docent was very knowledgeable about the building and the history of the home which survived the great earthquake of 1906 when almost everything in town collapsed.
In the garden outside there was a large redwood stump which was from the largest redwood ever cut down. It took over 60 man hours to cut it down. The stump is 21 feet in diameter, and was estimated to be 1,753 years old when it was felled 1943.
But wait, that’s not all they did today! My Kathe insisted that they visit the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens before going back to Willits. The gardens encompass over 47 acres of land with four miles of trails. Unfortunately, they only had time to visit a few of the displays. They chose the Dahlia Garden and the Display House with an amazing display of prize winning fuchsias and begonias. There was so much to see that they could have spent hours in all the various gardens, but they had to go back home to us doggies for dinner time.
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