Spent the weekend camping on the North Coast up in Humboldt County. Even though it was a summer weekend, we made no prior campground reservations. My plan was to see if we could get a spot at
Golds Bluffs Beach campground. Of course it was full by the time we rolled around on Friday evening. Which was a good thing, because we found a small county park that allowed camping that was much better.
Big Lagoon Campground. This place was great. Where Gold Bluff's campground is situated on the sand with no tree cover, Big Lagoon's campsites are tucked comfortably inside the tree line and out of the sand. Yet you are still so close the the ocean that at it is so loud and the surf so powerful that you can almost feel the ground shake as the waves hit.
Earthquake!!! Living in California you get your fair share of shakes. There have only been a few times where I have been concerned. This was one of them. Driving along the coast you see quite a few tsunami warning signs. So it's in the back of your mind, at least mine. Well around 10 or 11 at night the ground starts shaking. I wake up dreaming I'm on a waterbed and my wife is freaking out. "Did you feel that?" Yeah, I did. Now I'm listening for the ocean. I'm thinking tsunami, and my wife tells me later the She is thinking tsunami, but neither of us say anything. I want to get out of there, but I don't hear anyone else packing up or hear any warnings going off, so I nervously fall back to sleep with the waves not so comforting now.
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