My parents bought some property up in Willits a few years ago. Until I heard the term "California Rainforest", I never tought about this area in that way. Although most of the properties in the area are zoned for housing, many of the properties appear to keep a good percentage of the trees — I’m going to guess that this might be regulation, I would hope. I know that other states, like Washington, have laws similar to this.
This year is the first time I hiked around the property with my daughter. We were walking along a path when my daughter saw these. We were located a few hundred yards from west shore of Lake Ada Rose.
Willits is kind of a neat little town — there’s definitely more people there than when we last visited 5 years ago.
The camera I chose to take was the Kodak P880 — I like this camera, but I’m finding it’s not all flexible, and has a worthless macro function and is really finicky in lighting that most cameras should be able to deal with. This was definitely frustrating.
Next time, I’m bringing my dSLR, or the my old Canon PowerShot G3.
I’m just going to assume these are poisonous…