Today a region is generally understood not as a politically or geographically delimited space, but one determined by stories, loyalty, group identity, common experiences and histories (often unrecorded), a state of mind rather than a place on a map.

--Lucy Lippard

Humboldt Bay transmission lines and substations

Boat Tour of Humboldt Bay, Northern California

Humboldt Bay's Oyster Beds

In other urban environments, you tend to feel it when what you are doing is against the grain of the city. But when you are in Los Angeles, everything you do simply lays down a new path that is appropriate for some future, emerging lifestyle. It just feels like there are a thousand different ways of using this landscape, and they're all somehow appropriate.

--Geoff Manaugh

(A couple of Merle Shuster's celebrated aerial photographs of Humboldt Bay from the 1950s.)

Map of Humboldt Bay by Aldaron Laird