Jane Huber, one of the bay area's A-list hiking bloggers, describes Butano State Park as meh - nice enough, but not as great as other parks in the area. I have no idea what she is talking about - Butano is amazing, big trees, banana slugs, and coastal fog like Big Basin, without the traffic jams and crush of humanity. We stayed with Mark, Yu-Chen, and Ellie in the park's one campground. On Saturday, Noam and I hiked a loop including the Goat Hill trail to the Ano Nuevo trail. This is a banner year for banana slugs, we saw about four million of them during the weekend at Butano. Above is a mama banana slug shepherding her baby to safety. Or maybe not.Deer being cute:
Noam with the view from Ano Nuevo trail:
Sunday we hiked the Butano Creek Trail with Mark and Yu-Chen, who carried Ellie the entire time, probably three or four miles - holy feats of strength! That kid is almost four! Butano Creek:
Noam with the view from Ano Nuevo trail:
Sunday we hiked the Butano Creek Trail with Mark and Yu-Chen, who carried Ellie the entire time, probably three or four miles - holy feats of strength! That kid is almost four! Butano Creek:
Big trees:
Look, a slug! Hi slug.
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