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Willow Creek

Auto-extracted. Context: …ng woodland, at last On the shore at the mouth of Willow Creek: Here the enveloped us in its cool embrace. I gat… [2026-08-03: coordinate corrected — the Nominatim import had geocoded this to Willow Creek in Humboldt County (40.867, -123.692), about 380 miles north. Now set to the Willow Creek Vista Point coordinate above the creek mouth on the Big Sur coast, ~1.1 mi north of Gorda; approximate to about +/-150 m.]

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