May 19, 2008 Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Dagens baghave: Backyard of the Day: Crescent City, Del Norte County, California Crescent City, with Battery Point Lighthouse and the Brother Jonathan Cemetery, is located on the Pacific Coast, just south of the junction between Highways 101 and 199 in Del Norte County, California.   Vi fulgte Hovedvej 101 ud til kysten - og disen - igen, og standsede i Crescent City for at købe jordnøddesmør og tørret oksekød, og for at se os lidt om. Noget af det første vi så, efter vi tog afsted i morges, var en prærieulv... We followed Highway 101 back out to the coast - and the fog - and stopped in Crescent City to buy peanut butter and beef jerky, and to take a little look around. One of the first things we saw after we left this morning was a coyote...       I Crescent City tog vi ned til stranden for at se Battery Point Fyrtårn, et fyrtårn som kun er tilgængeligt ved lavvande... hvis man da vil tørskoet over, og ikke lige har taget sin jolle med. In Crescent City we went down to the beach to see Battery Point Lighthouse, a lighthouse which is accessible only at low tide... at least if you want to stay dry and didn't bring a dingy.   Ikke helt lavt nok... ~ Not quite low enough...       Der ligger utrolige mængder af drivtømmer her.... The quantities of driftwood here are astonishing....

Et lille strand-egern ~ A little beach squirrel

Lidt længere oppe ad kysten stødte vi på Brother Jonathan kirkegården, hvor 160 mennesker, der druknede i forliset af postskibet "Brother Jonathan" på St. George's Reef den 30. juli 1865, enten hviler eller mindes. Der var nitten overlevende, og treogtyve lig blev bjærget eller skyllede i land senere. De nitten overlevende blev reddet ved heltemodig indsats af fire sorte sømænd. Deres navne kendes ikke. A little further up the coast we found the Brother Jonathan Cemetery, where 160 individuals who drowned in the shipwreck of the mail steamer "Brother Jonathan" on St. George's Reef on July 30th 1865, are either interred or remembered. There were nineteen survivors, and twenty-three bodies were recovered. The nineteen survivors owed their rescue to the heroic efforts of four black seamen. Their names are unknown.         I en lille cirkel omkring flagstangen ligger begravet omkring en snes mennesker, der ikke var fra "Brother Jonathan" forliset. In a small circle around the flag pole are about twenty graves for people who were not shipwrecked with "Brother Jonathan."     "Farvel kære hustru, farvel. Du har ladt mig ensom tilbage i denne smertelige verden. Gid vi må mødes for at leve i himmelsk lykke ved Guds højre hånd og aldrig skilles mere." "Farewell, dear Wife, farewell. Thou'st left me lonely in this world of pain. O, may we meet in heavenly bliss to dwell at God's right hand no more to part again."

Lige nord for Crescent City kørte vi af Hovedvej 101 og tog 199 over statsgrænsen til Oregon. Just north of Crescent City we drove off Highway 101 and took 199 across the Oregon state line.

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