Point Reyes National Seashore is located about twenty miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge in northern California. It is a nature preserve with several cattle ranches still in operation with uncertain futures. It is a sprawling landscape with two points of land reaching out into the Pacific Ocean in opposite directions. It is home to an abundance of wildlife. There are also woodlands of firs, oaks, cypress and coastal chaparral. There are extensive estuaries and lagoons rich with birds both resident and migratory. Sea Lions and Elephant Seals can be found in abundance here as well as Tule Elk, Blacktail Deer, Coyotes, Bobcats, Badgers and Weasels. Raptors abound. Whales are often seen as they pass by on their migratory voyages.
