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wide open</span></h1> <div class="entry"> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>After days of steady rain</em></p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="800" height="373" src="https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-5-2025-02-07-800x373.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-21435" style="width:840px;height:auto" srcset="https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-5-2025-02-07-800x373.jpg 800w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-5-2025-02-07-300x140.jpg 300w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-5-2025-02-07-768x359.jpg 768w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-5-2025-02-07-1536x717.jpg 1536w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-5-2025-02-07.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></figure></div> <p> </p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="800" src="https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-1-2025-02-07-600x800.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-21436" srcset="https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-1-2025-02-07-600x800.jpg 600w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-1-2025-02-07-225x300.jpg 225w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-1-2025-02-07-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-1-2025-02-07-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-1-2025-02-07.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure></div> <p> </p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img decoding="async" width="800" height="600" src="https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-2-2025-02-07-800x600.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-21437" srcset="https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-2-2025-02-07-800x600.jpg 800w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-2-2025-02-07-300x225.jpg 300w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-2-2025-02-07-768x576.jpg 768w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-2-2025-02-07-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-2-2025-02-07.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></figure></div> <p> </p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="800" height="600" src="https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-3-2025-02-07-800x600.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-21438" srcset="https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-3-2025-02-07-800x600.jpg 800w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-3-2025-02-07-300x225.jpg 300w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-3-2025-02-07-768x576.jpg 768w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-3-2025-02-07-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-3-2025-02-07.jpg 2016w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></figure></div> <p> </p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="800" height="600" src="https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-4-2025-02-07-800x600.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-21439" srcset="https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-4-2025-02-07-800x600.jpg 800w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-4-2025-02-07-300x225.jpg 300w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-4-2025-02-07-768x576.jpg 768w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-4-2025-02-07-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://gualalariver.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GualalaRiver-mouth-4-2025-02-07.jpg 2016w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></figure></div> <p class="has-text-align-center"> <br><em>Photos courtesy of Jeanne Jackson</em></p> </div> <span style="display:none"><a href="https://gualalariver.org/tag/slider-front-page/" rel="tag">slider-front-page</a></span> <span style="display:none" class="updated">2025-02-07</span> <div style="display:none" class="vcard author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><strong class="fn" itemprop="name"><a href="https://gualalariver.org/author/dave-j/" title="Posts by Gualala River" rel="author">Gualala 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