I studied film at University. I really enjoy the factoids and tidbits about movies and frequently read up on movie trivia on IMDB. One random day, a couple of years ago, I had followed a random wild hair of inter web surfing/playing movie degrees of separation and found myself reading all about Jurassic Park 2 and the fern canyon location used in the film.
(Pride & Prejudice>Sense & Sensibility>Mansfield Park [you may see a pattern emerging]... distracted by the oh-so-yummy Alessandro Nivola in Mansfield Park, leading to: Jurassic Park 3, which made me curious about Jurassic Park 2> Filming location. Bam!)
I was all kinds of intrigued to find out that one of the most beautiful scenes in the gore-fest/ dinosaur film were shot in Northern California! And more kinds of intrigued when I found out that not far from there (Fern Canyon) was a 20-ish mile coastal backpackers hike and a rural car-camping campground along a section of California's coast called The Lost Coast. It sounded brilliantly idyllic! And since that day I've wanted to go there, if not to backpack, then to car camp for a few days.
I'm not a fan of most of California's camping. You have to make reservations for most places months and months in advance (6 months) and when you get there, instead of a relaxing, solitudinous escape, you find that you, and a zillion other people have simply relocated everything but the kitchen sink out to the wilderness to "camp" in extremely close proximity to each other. No thanks. Not my cuppa'.
If I go camping, I want space. I want to explore without running into a ton of people. And I want a campground with no advanced reservations required because most people don't bother to drive so far out of the way, or off-road. So when I discovered the Lost Coast, is was just the ticket.
This past weekend, I found myself with some rare down-time. So I packed up my jeep and hit the road with my travel pal, Heidi and drove five hours north to the best camping spot I've ever found. Shhhh! Keep this one a secret!
Sunset over Usal Beach:
(Pride & Prejudice>Sense & Sensibility>Mansfield Park [you may see a pattern emerging]... distracted by the oh-so-yummy Alessandro Nivola in Mansfield Park, leading to: Jurassic Park 3, which made me curious about Jurassic Park 2> Filming location. Bam!)
I was all kinds of intrigued to find out that one of the most beautiful scenes in the gore-fest/ dinosaur film were shot in Northern California! And more kinds of intrigued when I found out that not far from there (Fern Canyon) was a 20-ish mile coastal backpackers hike and a rural car-camping campground along a section of California's coast called The Lost Coast. It sounded brilliantly idyllic! And since that day I've wanted to go there, if not to backpack, then to car camp for a few days.
I'm not a fan of most of California's camping. You have to make reservations for most places months and months in advance (6 months) and when you get there, instead of a relaxing, solitudinous escape, you find that you, and a zillion other people have simply relocated everything but the kitchen sink out to the wilderness to "camp" in extremely close proximity to each other. No thanks. Not my cuppa'.
If I go camping, I want space. I want to explore without running into a ton of people. And I want a campground with no advanced reservations required because most people don't bother to drive so far out of the way, or off-road. So when I discovered the Lost Coast, is was just the ticket.
This past weekend, I found myself with some rare down-time. So I packed up my jeep and hit the road with my travel pal, Heidi and drove five hours north to the best camping spot I've ever found. Shhhh! Keep this one a secret!
Sunset over Usal Beach:
wow!!!! looks gorgeous!!
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