We travelled up north to the southern end of Point Reyes to Leemantour Beach to find the purple variants of the Coastal Lupines. The drive up was really picturesque, as we drove by the ocean and then into a redwood forest (Samuel Taylor State Park). We spotted a deer out in the wild probably out to mate with another deer. When we stepped foot on the beach, we saw humpback whales in the distance feeding on krill and plankton. We noticed that there were a bunch of birds concentrated on where the whales are at because when the whales feed, they might release some fish up for the birds to eat. We also found the purple lupines! What’s pretty epic about them is that the plate that is on the beach was originally where Santa Monica is so it’s like a whole new different population! I’m curious now to find if the genes for this lupines and the lupines down south in SoCal are similar. We stopped by Samuel P Taylor State Park to find another plant, but we couldn’t find them.