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Over at Fort Cronkhite near the parking lot I found these growing wild. The beach here is called Rodeo, but is it Roe-dee-oh, or Roe-day-oh? I’ve heard it called both. Wanting to know I called the visitors center. The woman manning the phone there said it was originally called Rodire (Ro-deer) Beach, but that has morphed into Roe-dee-oh Beach. The surfers call it Fort. Cronkhite Beach.
She also said you’ll hear pronounced both ways…

It was windy, and got chilly as the day wore on. Double D, and I started hiking up that mountain on the left and nearly reached the top when T called to say, “I’m here!” so we headed down to meet her. There is an old WWII bunker up there I’d like to explore.

Nikon D300s| Nikkor 18mm Ai-S| f8| 1/80 sec| ISO 200| Manual Mode| On a Tripod