I’ll admit, a show about “old wood” doesn’t sound all that thrilling, but as usual Huell manages to come up with a fun as well as informational adventure. Originally aired in 2011, this episode of California’s Gold features two sites that I hope to visit in the future. First up, it’s a magnificent covered bridge in the Mother Lode town […]
This week I chose a slightly different kind of adventure — a 2005 episode of Huell’s show Visiting in which he pays a house call in Bell Gardens and meets a very warm and convivial Cuban family. As if Neal and his family weren’t colorful enough, wait until you see the collection of over 500 vibrant red canaries that he […]
Salmon season is in full swing here in Northern California, and the Nimbus Fish Hatchery has been a very busy place lately. An impressive number of salmon are coming up the ladder this year, staff are hard at work with egg-taking, and visitors have been swarming the facility to watch all the activity. One of my vivid memories of childhood […]
I have never spent much time thinking about White Seabass, and I had never even heard of the Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute — but this 2008 episode of California’s Gold has plenty of both fun and educational information. Bill Ernst’s world record fish, which he speared while free diving, still stands as the largest and the oldest White Seabass; but […]
Red Rock Canyon State Park is located in Kern County, east of Bakersfield and just north of the site of Edwards Air Force Base. I never even knew this barren but beautiful place existed before I watched this episode of California’s Golden Parks! I’m not sure if I’ll ever make it down there — but there’s clearly a lot more […]
The Yuba Gold Fields are a fascinating place for me because they give a very good idea of what the area around Mississippi Bar on Lake Natoma would have looked like after the dredgers finished their work in 1962. At Lake Natoma, the Teichart Aggregate Company reclaimed much of the resultant dredger tailings and crushed them into gravel; when the […]
I was lucky enough to see the Blue Angels flying over San Francisco last year during Fleet Week, and they make regular appearances at Sacramento’s annual Capitol Air Show — but until watching this episode of California’s Gold, I never realized they have winter headquarters in El Centro in Southern California. Most of us will never have the opportunity to […]
Since this episode of California’s Gold was filmed in 1992, the Bodie State Historic Park has only grown in popularity. There are now about 100 structures still standing, and the high desert location makes it a favorite for winter and nighttime photography. As this episode makes clear, Bodie is famous not just in California but all over the world! Join […]
As a toddler, I may have been through Eureka on a family camping trip, but I have no memories of the place. Of course I already knew Eureka is a historic town — with buildings dating back as far as the 1850s — but when I think of Humboldt County I normally think of giant redwood trees and beautiful rocky […]