estel | Photos from the Marin Headlands

This was my first time hiking the Marin Headlands since I was a young child. I've been missing out all these years!

You can click on each of these photos for a larger view. I took the pictures with my iPhone, which is all I had on this hike.

Point Bonita Lighthouse, the Pacific Ocean and Fog

Buckwheat growing on the rocks at Point Bonita

"DYC"

One of the "rock gardens" along the hiking trails. Dudleya sp., dwarf Brodeia, goldback fern

Sticky Monkey-Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus)

Morning Glory climbing all over the bushes on the hillside

Some fuzzy flower-plant that's growing on a road cut

Godetia and Ithuriel's Spear amid dry rattlesnake grass (or balloon grass, if you prefer) -- just incredible

View of an amazing trailside rock garden

Rock garden closeup, with a polypody fern in the left

Dudleya

That bridge over there

Closeup of the beach at Rodeo Cove -- I could just spend all day with my head an inch above, wondering at all the tiny rocks (You have to click through to the larger view to fully appreciate the beauty)

Rodeo Beach and the Pacific Ocean at the end of our hike

Photos from the Marin Headlands

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