Last minute trip to Coloma to get away on a Saturday

Tim tried using the timer on our camera for the first time and it worked pretty good. Tim had to leap across the water to get to the rock just in time and I'm amazed it worked out.

We hiked up to the James Marshall monument and this is a view of the Coloma Valley, beautiful huh?

Tidepooling at Point Reyes with the Murdocks

The boys were so curious poking at the sea anemoni's and touching the star fish. This poor little crab was close to death so it was easy to grab him.

About a half hour later we were all wandering on the rocks pretty close to the water and all of a sudden an elephant seal pops his head up and stares at us. One of Casey and AnnaMarie's daughters was 10 feet away from it and was "encouraged" to run away when it started bumping it's chest against the rocks like it wanted to get out of the water. I guess they can be aggressive Tim tells us and by law you're supposed to stay about 100 feet away from them. I guess you can't help it when they come to see you. It was so cool seeing this huge wild creature so close.

Halloween

What a cute little tail

The King!

Mathias had a lion costume that I thought would have gone together a little more with Jared's costume but Mathias insisted on wearing last years dolphin one. The head barely fit that when he lifted his head it squished the corner of his eyes down. You guys looked great though, Mommy and her funny ideas.