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PiP for Comparison group. On EXPLORE.

No, I absolutely did not climb down there. It's 200 ft. straight down.

Notice the flip-flop fence. I'll bet this place has seen WAY too much partying!

Battery Point lighthouse in the distance. At low tide in summer, people can walk across a sand spit on the left and tour it. I named it after myself, because I was born at the hospital that used to be on the bluff behind me. This was the first time I'd actually seen this beach. I vaguely remember having my tonsils out at the hospital at age five and hearing the seagulls later that day as I got to eat my ice cream. AA329 Meaning

On the left, a historical site! I was born on that cliff. Not literally on the cliff, but there was a hospital there. Now, a tacky hotel is on the site. I've named this beach after myself. It was the first time as a sentient being that I ever saw it. ;-) (Bad photo, it's from my LG phone.)

On the left: the site of the hospital where I was born. Now a hotel. No wonder I crave the ocean all the time! A so-so photo from my LG phone.

I would love to stay there! www.requainn.com

Requa is from the Yurok word rekwoi , which means something like "where the river meets the sea." I don't know what the big building on the left is, but it looked like a sort of tribal community center, perhaps where they have their annual Salmon Festival. www.requarvpark.com www.yuroktribe.org

The source of this river is about 20 miles north of where I live in Oregon.

On the other side of that is the ocean.

www.requarvpark.com www.yuroktribe.org

He could be a fisherman, or could be a researcher. The Yurok Tribe has extensive environmental programs involving the fish, wildlife, watershed and general environment of their tribal lands in northwestern California. www.yuroktribe.org

The Klamath River begins north of Klamath Falls, Oregon, makes its way through northern California and flows out to sea on the right of this shot. It was interesting to be here, because I live very near the source of the Klamath River. The Yurok and other tribes who live along the Klamath River, from Oregon through California, have been fighting to save the Chinook salmon. This is directly related to the water that white cattle ranchers and potato farmers who live at my end (the source) of the Klamath insist is theirs to keep. tinyurl.com/ya4you64 At the bottom of that article are links to more information about this important legal and cultural crusade. For a more thorough idea of the plight and fight of the Yurok and, really, all Native American tribes, read this moving LA Times article about the Yurok: tinyurl.com/jw6sq6a It's a beautiful and tragic tale, well worth your time. With our current anti-environmental, anti-science, anti-brown-people, climate-denying administration, it will not be surprising if the salmon are declared not endangered , therefore we must save the white ranchers and their cattle, instead.

Salmon are a major element of Yurok identity. www.yuroktribe.org/salmonfestival.htm www.yuroktribe.org/culture The Yurok and other tribes who live along the Klamath River, from Oregon through California, have been fighting to save the Chinook salmon. This is directly related to the water that white cattle ranchers and potato farmers who live at my end (the source) of the Klamath insist is theirs to keep. tinyurl.com/ya4you64 At the bottom of that article are links to more information about this important legal and cultural crusade. For a more thorough idea of the plight and fight of the Yurok and, really, all Native American tribes, read this moving LA Times article about the Yurok: tinyurl.com/jw6sq6a It's a beautiful and tragic tale, well worth your time. With our current anti-environmental, anti-science, anti-brown-people, climate-denying administration, it will not be surprising if the salmon are declared not endangered , therefore we must save the white ranchers and their cattle, instead. The president andThe Yurok and other tribes who live along the Klamath River, from Oregon through California, have been fighting to save the Chinook salmon. This is directly related to the water that white cattle ranchers and potato farmers who live at my end (the source) of the Klamath insist is theirs to keep. tinyurl.com/ya4you64 For a more thorough idea of the plight and fight of the Yurok and, really, all Native American tribes, read this moving LA Times article about the Yurok: tinyurl.com/jw6sq6a It's a beautiful and tragic tale, well worth your time. With our current anti-environmental, anti-science, anti-brown-people, climate-denying administration, it will not be surprising if the salmon are declared not endangered , therefore we must save the white ranchers and their cattle, instead. The president and his secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency are 100% fools. AA294 Movement.

The tribe has quite a few enterprises for tourism, the main one being a casino. (I had neither the desire nor the money for visiting the casino.) I talked for a bit with the two Yurok drivers of these vans. I asked how the salmon run was this year. It was "terrible, the worst year we can remember." Salmon conservation is a loaded political topic, with ranchers up the Klamath River in Eastern Oregon insisting that their cattle have a "right" to the water, no matter that the salmon population is declining rapidly. To the Yurok, salmon are life.

Related to both walruses and fur seals.