Dogs aren't allowed to poke around Redwoods
National Park (http://www.nps.gov/redw/)
too much but they are allowed on this wide semi-circle of sand.
The waves in the broad cove usually lap softly onto the shore
but this was the site of a tsunami that wrecked Crescent City
in 1964. A century earlier, the sidewheeler Brother Jonathan
struck a submerged rock spire known as the "Dragon's teeth."
Lifeboats were deployed but only one made it to shore with 19
survivors. Teh loss of 215 lives remains the worst maritime disaster
in California history.
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