Beautiful Sonoma County

Today we drove through a good portion of Sonoma County. We started out in Windsor and drove through Healdsburg before heading west on Dry Creek Road ( this is a very narrow twisted east-west county road through the heart of northern Sonoma). Our first stop was a fluke - we ended up at this amazing lookout point at Lake Sonoma. These first three pictures are from that point. There are no close up vineyard shots here as we didn't take any, but passed through MANY vineyards. I'll try to take more later.

After getting through the heart of wine country we found ourselves driving through a dense forest. I managed to pull over once to get a good shot or two of some redwoods which are the next two pictures. We drive out of the dense forest to find ourselves basically at the ocean's edge on California Route 1 (Stewart's Point). That was a truly amazing experience.

We are awed by the views, I took many pictures, though don't feel they really do the landscape justice. Below are three of them. We luckily find a spot to stop (without having to pay to park) and walk down to the edge. We have a seat above the waves pounding the rocks below us, a very scenic snack. A golden eagle flies literally within 10 feet of me, but my camera is off so I miss a great shot. There was one stretch where it was actually a bit scary as you are so high up on the cliff and have nothing between you and the surf below. My mom would have been terrified. Despite getting a bit motion sick from the countless turns and bends in the road, it was a fabulous drive.