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| MLK Weekend 2017, Onions and I took a trip to Sonoma County. We left on Sunday morning and drove up north of Bodega Bay to Jenner. This is where the Russian River meets the sea. |
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| Goat Rock |
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| 12 Miles north of Jenner is Fort Ross State Park. |
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| On this spot in 1812, the Russians built an outpost as a place to supply their Alaska settlements. |
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| The built this "fort" here and called it Fort Ross (as in Rossyia) |
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| Of course this is a reconstruction, but apparently this is what it looked like. Onions about to enter the compound where the high ranking Russian officials lived. |
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| The compound had many residential buildings, storage houses and a chapel. |
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| In two corners of the rectangle are towers. |
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| The recent rains...flowers out! |
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| The Russians were here from 1812 to 1842 at which time they sold their land here to John Sutter. The seals have been forever. |
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| These aren't the original cemetery crosses, but there are Russians and other natives who died buried around the Fort. |
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