Our last days at Fort Flagler State Park…

Well, until we go back at least.

This should have been written on or prior to April 29, 2014, but well I got lazy and busy with moving our box with wheels to another island.

We had been doing a lot of cleanup of fallen branches as well as cleaning the upper camp ground in the last few months of our stay at Fort Flagler that we once again had a very large pile of brush to burn and the head Ranger gave us the honor of burning the pile before we left, so that is what we did.

I was out there for the better part of 8 hours, making sure it was burning in a safe manner as well as making sure I burned as much of it as I could. There was still a few stumps from the last burn pile that had not burned completely as well as huge chunks of cement from past dumps that kept getting dug up, which caused one end of the burn pile to not burn at all.

Once I figured out what the problem was, I spent a hour or so with the tractor building a road to the problem area and pushing the wood debris further away from the chunks of cement that was preventing a proper fire to burn.

While doing this I had a feeling I was being watched and sure enough, I saw the coyote watching me from about 50 yards away. He was there on and off throughout the day, it was a really nice, sunny and warm day with light winds, perfect for a large fire as well as napping in the sun which is what the coyote was mostly doing.

Here are the pictures, just a month later.