Thursday April 30, 2015

Another great ride today. We had a little climb out of Mugu on Highway 1 and passed Mugu Point Rock.

Then we joined the coastal route, it was lovely. Hills on one side and ocean on the other all on a dedicated cycle lane. We passed a naval base and saw these missiles.

We came into an area where we could smell strawberries, acres upon acres of strawberries.

Then lettuce and cabbage, and more strawberries – Driscoll and Dole have farms in the this area.

A \’poor\’ neighbourhood where every house had a boat dock, some with little boats but most with big boats moored alongside.

We passed two kilometres of parked RV’s. This was a state park area – a small strip of beach on one side, the highway on the other and a trail line next to that – very scenic.

A great new bike path running parallel to Highway 101.

The bike path was obviously needed, as we spotted another ghost bike.

We ate up the miles chatting to a few people along the way. Some suggested we go through Santa Barbara to one of the other State Parks the other side of Santa Barbara, but we decided to stay in Carpenteria and visit Santa Barbara then continue to one of the other parks tomorrow.

We chatted to a lovely lady when we came into Carpenteria, We had lunch at the local grocery store, which had wi-fi. No responses to our warmshowers requests, so we settled into the camp site. Another biker/hiker site.

We went back to the grocery store to pick up something for dinner and more provisions for the next couple of nights.

While we were having dinner, I noticed a couple of trailers that looked really neat. I decided to go over and chat to the owners of these really cool looking vehicles.

This was a mistake! Not because they were not nice people, but because we didn’t tidy up our picnic table. We had left our groceries on the table along with our dirty dishes. The seagull really enjoyed the package of tuna and package of salmon that we had bought and left on the table. Fortunately they didn’t get into the bread or the pasta. I called Ralf over and we tidied up the mess and put everything away.

We have a neighbor who is travelling from north to south with his 80 lb Labrador – in a trailer. Sally (the dog) was more interested in the ground squirrels than being sociable with us, she is very well trained and very gentle.

Another good day.