Bodega Bay

📍 Bodega Bay, California

Northern California’s coast feels like the edge of something wild, moody, and a little untouchable. Along the coast and north of San Francisco Bay is Bodega Bay.

My family is from Northern California and Bodega is a spot I have visited often. It doesn’t try to be beautiful… it IS beautiful. The fog rolls in fast, quiet, thick, swallowing the coastline until you can’t see more than a few feet ahead. The kind of fog that makes you feel like you’re not alone… even when you are.

Cliffs drop straight into restless water.
The air tastes like salt and something older. Wind moves through everything: grass, wood, skin, like it’s searching for something.

This is where Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic 1963 horror classic “The Birds” was filmed. The film its self is quite terrifying but what if it was based on something true? Stories around Bodega Bay say that birds once turned on the town for no reason. At first they were silent and then chaos. I like to think that there is a little bit of truth in all strange legends.

When you stand there in Bodega now, watching birds gather along the wires, it’s hard not to wonder… what would make them do it again?

Also how cute is my mom?!