| Here we've hiked over to Bear Harbor (about 0.4 miles). Rusted rails dangling down the cliffs at Bear Harbor and faint traces of rail bed in Railroad Canyon, are all that remain of the disaster-plagued Bear Harbor & Eel River Railroad built in the late 1800s to haul timber. A Pacific storm destroyed Bear Harbor wharf in 1899, owner-timber baron Harvey Anderson was killed in an industrial accident in 1905, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake caused major damage to the track and trestles. Did I mention that the San Andreas Fault lies just off the coast? |
