The Sea Ranch is Calling

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The Sea Ranch is Calling

A few weeks ago I wrote that to celebrate my 71st birthday we went to The Sea Ranch. We started coming here in 1989, and Max is our third dog to enjoy this remarkable place. The actual reason to take six days vacation was the need to refinish the kitchen floor in our house. Since we could not stay there during this process, we decided to use the opportunity to visit again The Sea Ranch. To buy a birthday cake, we drove to a pastry shop in Anchor Bay, about a half an hour away. After a long evening walk with Max on the ocean trail, and getting exhausted after running and playing with him on the beach, we settled down in front of the TV to watch the Father Brown series and to have tea with cake. This was the best birthday celebration I could wish for.

The Sea Ranch has an interesting history. Online I learned that “For hundreds of years before Europeans ever saw the northern Sonoma coast, the gentle Pomo Indians made seasonal tracks for the coast to hunt, fish and gather foodstuffs. In the spring of 1812, Ivan Kuslov, a peg-legged officer of the Russian American Fur Company, was the first white man to walk this coast. In 1839 the Russians sold their holdings to a Swiss rascal named John Augustus Suter, “who also owned large areas in the Central Valley, where gold was later discovered setting the California Gold Rush.”

In 1963, after changing hands many times, 5,200 acres of the Rancho del Mar was purchased by Oceanic California Subsidiary of the Hawaiian company Castle and Cooke for 2.3 Million Dollars to develop a second home community. You can read more about The Sea Ranch on their website – tsra.org.

Today you can buy a lot to build your own home here, within the forest and oceanfront for anywhere between $25,000 and $550,000. If you prefer to buy an existing home, it might cost you between $750,000 and up to $2,000,000.

P.S. After many years of photographing in The Sea Ranch, I have thousands of images in my computer. The beauty here is so overwhelming; it is new experience every time. These four images of two sunsets and two sunrises are just the proof.

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Cheers,

Manny<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Signature