This picture is taken at South Salmon Creek Beach. I was out looking for rocks, a new passion - especially heart rocks - or ones shapes like hearts. I found about 3 that day. As I looked up I saw that a squall was approaching - now how fast can I outrun the rain?
I guess it's my time to shine, while the sun won't for a few days.
Working at the Sonoma Coast Visitors Center - aka SCVC - is more than a job - it's a passion for me
to find answers to what may seem very obscure knowledge. I have the ultimate hard drive internally and it's daily being filled with facts and knowledge. No. 1 question asked by over 8,000 people a year - "Where's the school house?" Without batting an eyelash, it's the Potter School House 6 miles south in our sister city of Bodega. It's a private residence owned by Leha Taylor and her family. Some times during the year Leha opens the house to visitors for tours. The movie The Birds has become more than just a movie about birds. It's put our small fishing hamlet on the map - so to speak. When asked for tours of the making of the movie, I've often thought it's a missed opportunity for some enterprising entreprenure to makeup a tour. People don't want wine tours out in Bodega Bay, they want to see where the movie was made, are the locals who were extras still alive? Was I living here when they made the movie? Yes, some of the extras are still Living - yet here in Bodega Bay. No, I wasn't here during the filming,I was living in Reno. People ask - where's the closest Starbucks? Hello - we don't do Starbucks, Wendys, McD's. etc. All businesses are locally owned and operated. We do have the Road House Coffee on Highway One. What a cozy place that is. Jim the owner has more than one story to tell - and I wonder where did he get the comfy stuffed chairs. Not only does he use Fair Trade Coffee, it's organic and he roasts his beans. He got me back into drinking "good" coffee. Remember me - not just a gem - but a Jewell
My grandparents lived in the little house down by the water off of Smith Bros Road (which use to be Loop Rd). I remember as a little girl that my Aunt Donna and Uncle Clarence use to have a house up on the road & they would sell fish that my grandfather, Angelo Smith caught. But back then Bodega Bay was a small fisherman's town with very little population. I was wondering if there is any information on the Smith Clan, besides the road named after them & Stephen Smith being their relative. I have some old papers with stories in them that has been past to me by my dad, Wesley Vincent Smith, youngest of Angelo and Kathrine.
Posted by: Tina Smith Kelley | July 24, 2008 at 02:21 PM