Last weekend, we went to Crescent City - hoping to show Rhyoji the elk, along with the redwoods, light house, and the coast.  My timing was bad all around is all I can say....

We saw elk twice - both times Rhyoji was asleep.  We went to Trees of Mystery, and the SkyCam wasn't working - one of the best parts of the attraction.  We made due with the SkyWalk, but it isn't the same.  Turns out that the entire north coast (Del Norte County) had no power and Trees of Mystery was running on a generator due to a threat to the power lines from the Six River Complex fires.  Crescent City had no power.  No stop lights, no gas, no lunch....  We drove up to Brooking to gas up and grab some pizza.  Just waiting to gas up ate up close to 30 minutes of our day - every gas station was packed with people filling up their rigs and gas cans for the generators.  The line I chose had a lady filling 4 cans with diesel....so we were there for a while. (Oregon just allowed self serve last month, so many people there are not familiar with it, and it took her a while...)  It was also high tide when we got to the beach, so no tide pools, no walk to the light house, etc.  It was a long day....I enjoyed it, for the most part, but I don't think Rhyoji was that impressed.