[color=orange]"Yes Corinne baby, this one right here."[/color] Rolo responds. He pats the smooth stone of the natural formation left uncovered by the blanket.

[color=orange]"And yeah, I dunno. It's magical and stuff."[/color] Rolo says in response to Corinnes question regarding the Esselen memory stone.

[color=orange]"The local Esselen people who lived in the area of Sea Salt Bay in particular came to this place. They gathered around this massive stone that we're sitting on right now."[/color]explained Rolo. He made a wide sweeping gesture at the surrounding area around them.

[color=orange]"Every night of the full moon they gathered. They gathered here to touch this stone, to fill it with their hopes and dreams. They placed their palms on it like this."[/color] explained Rolo further. He then placed his palm flat on the stone surface.

[color=orange]"And then they closed their eyes, and thought and prayed with all they had. They left nothin unsaid."[/color] said Rolo. 

He then closed his eyes for a couple of moments. A comically strained expression was displayed on his features as he did this. When those couple of moments passed he then opened his eyes, and took his hand off of the stone.

[color=orange]"They also gave the stone their problems, hoping that the great coyote in the sky would hear them. Maybe help them out a little."[/color] Rolo explained further.

Almost on cue the call of a coyote was issued, followed shortly by the responding call of a different coyote. The coyotes in the area of Sea Salt Bay were the apex predators of the woods. Though they weren't above digging through people's garbage. The coyotes, thankfully, were far too shy to bother human beings. If a pack were to encounter an injured human that couldn't defend themselves however, that would be a different story. Such instances were admittedly very rare though.