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Drake's Bay

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Drake's Bay, inlet of the Pacific Ocean, formed by the San Andreas fault, W Calif., NW of San Francisco. Point Reyes forms its outer arm. The bay was visited by Sir Francis Drake Drake, Sir Francis, 1540?–1596, English navigator and admiral, first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577–80). Early Career


He was born in Devonshire, the son of a yeoman, and was at an early age apprenticed to a ship captain.
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 in 1579.


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His stuff had been wrapped in the same plastic trash bag as my luggage for the voyage from the lodge across Drake's Bay and up the Sierpe River to the landing strip.
From steep forested ridges down canyons choked with coyote brush, across rolling grasslands and finally a salt marsh, the Vision fire - started by an illegal campfire on nearby state land - marched to the beach at Drake's Bay before it was contained.
WHAT: The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will be served Drake's Bay oysters at a luncheon following a visit to the Point Reyes Farmers' Market this Saturday.
 
 
 
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