A hidden treasure on the northern coast of California is the sea wall at Crescent City. My friend Dorothy, who lives near Point St. George, took me for a drive along the wall several summers ago.  It was a warm and fogless day,  rare for the northern coast. We began our drive at the city park on the bay, looking south, then turned west and north past the Battery Point Lighthouse in order to follow the sea wall. Houses are built across the road from the wall all the way through town until one arrives at a long grassy bluff stretching out to sea. We walked out to the end of the bluff where the St George Reef Lighthouse was visible standing guard on rocks a full ten miles away. A short walk northeast over a large knoll revealed another phenomenal sight: the shore curved slowly right to left and north thirty miles. This was Pelican Bay, and though I have lived on its north end, and been a visitor to this area all my life, I had never had the privilege of viewing this aspect of the “banana belt” of the southern Oregon coast. Along the mid section of the bay is the California-Oregon border, just north of the Ship-Ashore resort and the Smith River. The shoreline faded into mist at its far end, and only a suggestion of the hills there near Brookings, Oregon were visible.