Getting to know you....Eureka.

This crazy looking piece of machinery is part of the logging history exhibits on site at Fort Humboldt State Historical Park. By the loggers who used it, it was called a "steam donkey". It was steam powered and it was used to drag Redwood logs through the forest.
This gem is right outside the Eureka Library, there is a soft play field underneath to absorb jumping and falls. In the background you see a sandpit. It has sculptured sand dollars & sea stars. The boys can spend hours back and forth between the sand and the ship. We have a pretend crab & salmon dinner every time we play here.
Over a mile walk from our temporary headquarters is this park, Carson Park. The climbing/slide structure looks like a brontosaurus.
We found this park on our return trip back from Carson park. This is park 20-30. The slide to the left is so wide the boys and I rode down together troika.
On the way home from a walk one day two motorcycles stopped and leather clad riders invited us to an event at Bouce-a-palooza that was being put on by their chapter of BACA (bikers against child abuse). It was a free event for kids in Eureka to let the neighborhood know about their cause/services for kids.