I figured I was having it too easy staying in cities and Youth Hostels every other night and started planning a 3 day camping trip down the coast. After three days of paddling I thought it would be wise to take a lay-over-day and rest up. On Thursday morning I tried to sleep in late and got up feeling great. My muscles and my joints were not sore from paddling and I felt I should have just jumped back in the water. Instead I drove down the coast and scouted out the places I would paddle past the next few days. I was planning to paddle as far south as Redwood Creek and turning back there. This turned out to be a miserable dumping beach that would be no fun to launch at. I may stop here for lunch and eat it at sea before returning north.
A one day paddle south of the Youth Hostel there is a 14 kilometer long beach called Gold Bluffs. It has a campground on it that you can get to on a long dirt road. I thought this meant the camp would be practically deserted but it was almost full! Gold Bluff beach was warm and sunny even though everyplace else I had been in the last few days was foggy and overcast.