Watching adult Chinook salmon, who have “run” 300 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean, spawn in Clear Creek just outside Redding, California.
Male and female Chinook salmon return to the place they were born to lay and fertilize their own eggs before they die.
Adult Chinook salmon spawning in Clear Creek near Redding, CA.
A fish-eye view of salmon spawning in Clear Creek near Redding, CA.
Chinook salmon spawning in Clear Creek near Redding, CA.
A mosaic at the Clear Creek Gorge viewing platform depicts the life cycle of salmon, who travel 300 miles downstream to the Pacific Ocean after they are hatched in Northern California — and then return as mature adults.
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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