Me on the front porch waiting for our guests..
Hi Everybody!
I just learned that our friends at State Parks and PCLK are going to offer a “Sunset Walk” on June 8. Dad and I will not be able to attend but hoping you can. The light station is really neat at night believe me. Check out all the details here.
OK, that is all for now, thanks for reading my blog!
DDD
Me on the front porch waiting for our guests..
(My apologies for reposting this entry. One of our diligent readers found a problem with the last posting so I eliminated it and am posting anew.)
Hi Everyone, just a quick post to say thanks to all the great kids, teachers and parents from Dana Gray Elementary School who visited us last week at Point Cabrillo. At Point Cabrillo we had Pam, Sarah and Kath all helping out along with Dad and I.
Dad said the kids were on a “field trip”, we do have some fields around but they spent time at the East House and the Light House more than they did in the fields. Good thing too because there are a lot of ticks in the fields now (Dillon knows, he is a tick magnet).
The kids were really good and asked questions and mostly listened to Dad who asked them a lot of questions too. They really liked the model ship in the dining room, most people do not even look at it but the kids loved it. They even seemed to like the story about Sarah which we all know Dad loves to tell as often as possible.
Sorry we do not have any pictures because Dad forgot his camera, again… But believe me the kids seemed to have a great time and maybe learned some things along the way as well! Maybe one of our readers has a pic or two to share.
Thanks for reading my blog!
DDD
Me on the front porch waiting for our guests..
Mom, Dad and I had visitors this weekend, Kalyca and Michelle and they wanted to see Point Cabrillo Light Station so Dad and I took them with us on Sunday and gave them the grand tour! They really seemed to like hearing about everything and of course Dad loved talking away. First we went into the East House and there were a lot of visitors so early in the day. Dad talked to all the people in the house and Kalyca and Michelle too. Then Kalyca and Michelle REALLY wanted to have their picture taken with me so I agreed, sometimes it is not easy being a celebrity. I get sooo tired of posing for the camera but I like to make Dad happy so I do it.
Me, Kalyca and Michelle
After Dad said everything he had to say about the East House and of course Sarah and the bricks on the fireplace we left and walked down to the lighthouse. Dad talked most of the way about the head light keepers house, the West House and a bunch of other stuff. If I could have I would have laid down and taken a nap….
Anyway, we got to the light house and Michelle went in to check it out, Kalyca had been in it before so she stayed outside. Then we went over to see the moms and their pups (seals) but we only saw one, maybe they were out playing in the ocean it was such a nice day. Then we saw an Osprey, the same bird that is in the scary movie I shared awhile back (not really the same bird but Dillon thinks so…). He was just sitting there on the side of the cliff waiting for an unsuspecting fish to come along but we never saw him catch one, he just sat there for the longest time without moving.
We walked back to the East House and Dad put my pillow away and we left. Dad said we were not staying because we had company which was OK with me. We worked Friday when a bunch of school kids came to visit us and I was still a little tired from that adventure. Guess I will write about that next.
Well thanks for reading my blog!
DDD
Me on the front porch waiting for our guests..
Hi everybody, just wanted to let you know that Dad and I did not go to the East House on Sunday. Dad had something else he had to do which was OK with me as I was really tired from being there on Saturday afternoon. Dad and I got interviewed for a television program and it was really hard work.
So Cadet and I stayed home on Sunday and took a long nap, it was very nice.
Cadet and I settling down to take a nap….
I will write about the television show thing another time, now Dad and I have to go out for our walk.
Thanks for reading my blog!
DDD
Me on the front porch waiting for our guests..
Wow, now this is really cool!
The Point Cabrillo Light Keepers Association is putting on a concert at the light house, I have no idea what a concert is but Dad says it is really neat!
It will be on June 16 and there are only 50 seats available so you better hurry and get your tickets real soon!
Concert at the Light House!
I am not sure but maybe Dad will let me go and I will see you there!
Thanks,
DDD
Me on the front porch waiting for our guests..
Wow, Sunday was another great day at Point Cabrillo Light Station!
First thing when we got there look what we saw:
A new sign to welcome folks to the East House
Isn’t this a great sign, Dad and I do not know who made it but we are very happy they did!
It was really slow when we got to the East House, no one came by to visit for some time. It was cold and foggy so Dad thought maybe folks were staying home or something. Actually, I never really know what Dad is thinking most of the time, I just guess a lot….
Anyway, Dad and I took a walk down to the light house and visited there for a while and then we walked around to see what was new. Guess what!!!!! We saw a mama seal and her pup again, not sure if it was the same one as last week, Dad said he thought it was a different mom and pup because of the colors.
Can you see the Mom and her little baby, they are so cute!
Then Dad saw another seal that stared at us for a long time, I told Dad maybe the seal wanted to have its picture taken so Dad took it. Here is the picture:
The amazing staring seal!
Dad and I then went back to the East House and we were really busy for a long time (about 2 hours). A lot of visitors were very interested in the East House so Dad had a great time talking to all of them. I had a good time because there were a lot of kids so I got a lot of treats, it was really cool. Some of the visitors asked Dad so many questions I thought he was going to run out of stuff to say, but not my Dad. He just keeps on talking and talking and talking forever! You might have guessed that I decided to take a nap because I did not want to hear anymore about Sarah or the bricks in the fireplace, jeez they are just bricks.
Dad decided we should walk down to the light house again and see what was going on so we did. We saw an Osprey that we had seen before and Dad took a better picture of it this time than the one he took last week.
Osprey looking for lunch….
He is just above where the seals are, I worried maybe the osprey would try to eat the baby seal after seeing that scary movie about them. Dad told me he did not think the osprey would try to get the baby because they eat mostly fish and the seal is kind of big so I felt a little better but it still made me nervous.
We went back to the East House after the osprey flew away and I felt the baby seal was safe. We put some bird seed in the feeder and then a few more visitors came by and Dad had a great time talking to them too.
Finally, Dad said it was time to go home and we walked up the hill, drove home and then I took a nap.
Thanks for reading my blog!
DDD
Me and Cadet
Hi Everyone! Can anyone guess why I have my picture with Cadet this time instead of my usual picture on the porch? I will let you know later, hee hee, hee.
Anyway, Dad and I went to the East House today and had a very nice day. It was the second day in a row we had been to Point Cabrillo Light Station. Saturday we went because they were giving lens tours and Dad wanted some pics from the lantern room platform. Of course they will not let me up there, after all the work I do for Point Cabrillo and all the nice stuff I say and…. (Dillon gets a little overly agitated about this, sometimes I just have to cut him off when he starts to ramble). The good news is that Dad left me with my friend Kath down at the bottom of the stairs while Dad went up and took pictures, she had a bunch of treats. When Dad came back I pretended that I had missed him but not really, Kath and I had a great time WITHOUT Dad.
Here is a pic Dad took when he went up to the top by the light:
Looking East at the road that leads to the lighthouse. The residences are in the distance, you can see the West House
That little dog in the pic is not me, I was inside with Kath. Dad has a lot more pics he took and he said he may post them on the Point Cabrillo Face Book page.
Well Sunday was really nice, no rain, not much wind and it was not too cold, pretty dog gone nice as Dad would say. We spent some time in the East House and then went for our walk down to the light house. Steve who is the President of the Point Cabrillo Light Keepers Association was there and he gave me a treat, he is nice. Dad talked to him for a while and then we went back out and walked some more. Finally, we went over to the area South of the lighthouse where water comes into this little bay and guess what? We saw a Mother Seal and her Pup!!!!! I was so excited Dad thought I was going to break through my leash (not really but he thinks so). Dad took a some pictures but they did not come out too well, they are kind of hard to see sometimes.
Mom and Baby….. Off centered upper third of photo. (sorry for the quality, best I could do)
You have to look real close but if you do maybe you can see the mom swimming in the front and the seal pup behind her. Dad says this isn’t Sea World so the seals do what they want and sometimes they are hard to see, not sure what he means by that whole Sea World thing….
Guess what? We also saw this really neat bird called an Osprey, it has a white head and I thought at first it was an eagle. Dad took a pic which is kind of hard to see again but here goes:
Can you see the Osprey in the middle of the picture?
We waited a long time to see if the bird would fly and maybe try to catch a fish but it didn’t. I got bored, not sure why the Osprey did not get bored too!
We did not get to see the Osprey try to catch a fish but our friend Robert sent us this movie about Osprey catching fish so you can watch this if you want. I warn you though, it is kind of scary, at least to little dogs like me. Believe me, I will never swim in the ocean again after seeing this movie!
Well then we went back to the East House and Dad did his docent thing and I took a short nap and then it was time to feed the birds. The bird feeder was almost full already so that did not take too long at all.
Finally Dad said it was time to go home, on the way up the hill we saw our friend Laura and that was our day!
Thanks for reading my blog,
DDD
