Gold Beach to Crescent City-58m

On paper, today was a shorter, easier day. In reality it was significantly slower and harder, due to the elements!

The irony of escaping Oregon with no wettening of our garments...

And approaching California, the 'golden state' in waterproof jackets and rain-speckled glasses!

However, halfway through the day and almost within reach of the state border, lo, the damp cleared off and the mercury rose a degree or five. Jackets were off!

A damp 25miles does make you fully appreciate every future dry mile you have. I fear we may have another appreciation lesson tomorrow!

But for day 10, we ended up arriving in the dry, with appreciation also at not needing to earn our living in this way:

Without these farmers there would be no Easter Lillies in the world, as 95% come from here!

On today's post-cycle nature hunt Pierre's nose guided us to some quiet and some not so quiet creatures behind the rocks:

These guys look about as contented as I am right now :-)