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I just returned from a quick two night camping trip to Manchester State Park on the central coast and want to share with my Hogs and Hogettes in the Busse Forum. The area is one of my favorite places that I know of in the world, and the coast just becomes more beautiful heading north on the 1 all the way to Oregon. The actual park campground is amidst a cluster of cypress trees in a large expanse of coastal grasslands which abuts a long stretch of sand dunes and beach. There are deer, plovers, and "bunnies" (my lady was very excited).
180 degree panorama looking out to the Pacific:
180 looking from dunes east toward campsites:
Campsite 40:
It is a pretty small, first-come-first-serve campground, has no showers. There are spigots for water (non-potable).
Bathroom facilities are outhouses:
I've never seen the place completely full, probably owing to the long, winding mountain drive to hit that spot of the coast from inland, and the weather is effectively cold Fall weather every night (highs in 90s at home, 50s at Manchester). Not a good spot if you can't get down with ocean wind spray all up in your fire pit at night! Building a huge, raging fire at night is required :thumbup:
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The NMFSH went along. Easily my favorite Busse & kin blade now. I enjoyed chopping with it before but this knife can do it all. The edge is thin enough for smaller-knife-type cutting duties but due to the eventual thickness at the spine, it just explodes wood apart when batonning. It's great in hand and I spent plenty of time sitting by the fire with a beer, just admiring it and listening to the ocean. I didn't take any time stopping chores to take pictures but it went through a huge stack of wood. Awesome knife.
Cooking in the cast iron dutch oven keeps the wind off your food and cooks everything up nice and even. Plus you can throw the lid on and cook up a killer stew when you're faded in the evening. Took photos one of two mornings:
Boss Jack went, too, but was stuck on marshmallow-stick-making duty. There was Bulleit on hand to increase enjoyment and excellence in stick-making execution
When the strife and suffering of deep wilderness survival becomes too much, there is a coastal village called Point Arena a short drive to the south which has a beer pub at the dock:
Killer weekend. Thanks for reading
180 degree panorama looking out to the Pacific:
180 looking from dunes east toward campsites:
Campsite 40:
It is a pretty small, first-come-first-serve campground, has no showers. There are spigots for water (non-potable).
Bathroom facilities are outhouses:
I've never seen the place completely full, probably owing to the long, winding mountain drive to hit that spot of the coast from inland, and the weather is effectively cold Fall weather every night (highs in 90s at home, 50s at Manchester). Not a good spot if you can't get down with ocean wind spray all up in your fire pit at night! Building a huge, raging fire at night is required :thumbup:
:thumbup:The NMFSH went along. Easily my favorite Busse & kin blade now. I enjoyed chopping with it before but this knife can do it all. The edge is thin enough for smaller-knife-type cutting duties but due to the eventual thickness at the spine, it just explodes wood apart when batonning. It's great in hand and I spent plenty of time sitting by the fire with a beer, just admiring it and listening to the ocean. I didn't take any time stopping chores to take pictures but it went through a huge stack of wood. Awesome knife.
Cooking in the cast iron dutch oven keeps the wind off your food and cooks everything up nice and even. Plus you can throw the lid on and cook up a killer stew when you're faded in the evening. Took photos one of two mornings:
Boss Jack went, too, but was stuck on marshmallow-stick-making duty. There was Bulleit on hand to increase enjoyment and excellence in stick-making execution
When the strife and suffering of deep wilderness survival becomes too much, there is a coastal village called Point Arena a short drive to the south which has a beer pub at the dock:
Killer weekend. Thanks for reading
