Bay Island Nature & Such

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Occupation naturalist/author, chocolate curator
Location San Francisco/Bay Area, CA, United States
Introduction "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." (John Muir) Nature instructs, heals, and inspires me. I hope you find your own connection with our beautiful natural world through the doorway of my blog.
Interests birding, hiking, camping, kayaking, writing, reading a good book while enjoying delicious single-origin dark chocolate
Favorite Movies Pixar - for great storytelling, Marvel movies - for action/adventure, Star Wars - don't judge me
Favorite Music Indie, Country, especially Switchfoot, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, and most recently I discovered jazz interpreted by Elizabeth Shepherd
Favorite Books Books by Nevada Barr (National Parks and mystery stories), Earlene Fowler (mysteries set on CA Central Coast), whatever my book club is reading. Have you got any suggestions for others?

If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?

Maybe I'd have to become crepuscular, like deer and mountain lions, active in the early morning and evenings and sleeping in the heat of the day and dead of night.