45 Days on a Gen3 Hayabusa - 2023 Pashnit Touring

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Shelter Cove Rd

 

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Reaching the ocean after all day on the bike.

Shelter Cove is a tiny coastal community of 800 people. 1 road in. 1 road out. All set into this promontory stuck out into the ocean. The town is famous for a 1960s land swindle. Developers bought up the land, and laid a grid of roads over the land but paid no attention to the steep mountain terrain. The lots were sold sight-unseen and many were so steep, they were unbuildable. The mountain road to reach the town was dirt in the 1960s and 25 miles from the main road. Developers went as far as to fly prospective buyers into the town via the airstrip and never mention the remoteness of the town or lack of services. Even in present day, there's no fuel, and one small general store for groceries.

 

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Reaching the other side of the range always requires a stop for fuel & ice cream

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All the missing flyers

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One log house
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I see a guy without gray hair...what's he doing there?
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Our visit to Shelter Cove as always the highlight, and mid-point, of our ride season

Step out the door of our rooms to this:

 

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Inn of The Lost Coast in Shelter Cove

 

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Monya, who started riding a few years ago at age 65, asked one of the other riders if he'd take her picture with her bike. Turned out great!

 

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Another awesome day of riding on the bike, perfect finish to our day

 

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Up early before the sunrise for a solo ride across the state, plus a moment to explore this tiny town

 

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Plus, a lot of gratuitous pics of my Busa

 

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I've put about 7000 miles on it in the last 5 months

 

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I discovered the harbor just down the street where all the fishing boats launch each morning

Early morning low tide, they back the boat trailers right into the ocean with a tractor

 

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Nearby is an all new brewery, said to be the remote brewery in California

 

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Nearby is a Black Sand Beach. There were signs everywhere not to swim in the ocean due to dangerous currents and rip tides.

 

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Trailheads spider off from the Black Sand Beach where you can hike along the ocean high above the water, the trail along the ocean goes for 25 miles, there are no roads, no people, no towns and one of the most remote mountainous regions in California no one has ever heard of, the Sinkyone Wilderness

 

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No wilderness for me, I headed back into the Redwood Forest

 

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These trees can be 300 ft tall, and it's so dark in here under the thick canopy, the Clearwater Lights illuminate the road