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Day 25 - Trinidad Head, Port, Scenic Drive and Our Front Porch

Fog banks mysteriously roll on and off shore in these parts. No one has ever ascertained the specific dynamics that result in the wild daily, even hourly, fluctuations along the coast.

Emma Brown Sock in front of her biggest find of the day, a CIA listening post disguised as a Scripps Institute weather station hidden on the top of Trinidad Head.

Waaay down in that little cleft is a CIA observation platform, disguised as a tiny lighthouse. The Coast Guard even maintains a "road" to it. Uh-huh.

There's the CIA shuttle bus, cunningly disguised as a Humboldt State University student transport. The "students" were allegedly out on a "geology" field trip. Uh-huh. BTW, our palace for this week is that big house right in the arms of the Y in the road just behind the bus, where we can keep an eye on 'em.

CIA maintains this dock in Trinidad - its legend is "fishing". Uh-huh.

These benches are used for dead drops by you-know-who.

We found this field of what we believe are alien eggs. CIA had chained them to discarded V-8 engine blocks and tossed them in the ocean. The ocean has tossed them straight back.

Move slowly, lest ye break an egg. We think that would be very bad.

The "Humboldt bus" comes to a shuddering halt in the parking lot scrape next to the alien egg deposit.

CIA once used this outboard powered floating dock as a platform for recovering missing Soviet nuclear missile submarines. Those guys are the current skeleton crew, keeping this top-secret vessel ready should the need arise once more. Otherwise, they bring in a few crabs to go with the Budweisers.

This is CIA's ultra-top-secret standing wave machine, blasting out a towering wave. It is used for training special-service surfers.

These sturdy foreshore trees were planted many decades ago, as a protective barrier to shield the listening post from nasty Pacific storms.

Yet another sign of unusual phenomena, as the sun sinks directly into the ocean.


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