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California Canon Camera Adventure
CRESCENT CITY
A photo journal of Nature Ali's northern California and Oregon
Adventure
SF
BAY AREA
HEALDSBURG
REDWOOD COAST
CRESCENT CITY
KLAMATH
TULE LAKE
SHASTA
SACRAMENTO
STOCKTON
WILDLIFE |
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I finally
arrive in Crescent City at noon on Monday. I find Craig busy at work
and Anne at home. I accompany her to buy a new mattress, then
convince her to go with me to photograph some of the sites. The
lighthouse at the south end of the city and a place called Castle
Rock are our only stops today. NEXT |
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Waves crash on the
Pacific Ocean |
Another day ends |
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Battery Point Crescent City Lighthouse |
Still illuminating the way for
ships near the coastline |
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Sunset and Monterey Pine |
The end of day over
Castle Rock |
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Up before dawn the next morning, I head to the beach. Hundreds of
Brown Pelicans, thousands of shearwaters, hundreds of gulls, dozens
of godwits, turnstones, surfbirds, sanderlings, and other birds
greet me with the rising rose-hued breath of sunrise. An American
Oystercatcher runs back and forth searching for breakfast, what a
fun bird to photograph, with its dramatic red-orange bill and eye.
Oops, I almost step on a sea lion. She didn't seem to appreciate it
as she lumbered into the surf to join several hundred of her friends
lounging on Castle Rock. Boy, I didn't know a gigabyte of pixels
would disappear so quickly, back to see Anne and start a day of
adventures with her. NEXT |
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Dawn breaks over Castle
Rock |
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Run toward the receding
surf |
Sanderling at the surf |
Run! away from the
incoming surf |
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Black Oystercatcher gets
breakfast
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Juvenile Black
Oystercatcher flies to the breakfast bar |
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Bath time |
A stream of fresh water
does the trick |
Shake your booty |
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Marbled Godwits on the
prowl
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Marbled Godwits take
flight |
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The ocean is not
everyone's friend |
Gulls, Oystercatchers and
surf across the sea from Castle Rock |
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Common Raven |
Surfbird |
Western Gull |
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Feather and Stone |
Dolphin head rock |
Footprints in the sand |
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Cormorants cleared for take-off |
California Sea Lion rudely awakened |
Western Gulls |
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A congregation of Brown
Pelicans enjoy the dawn |
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I wanted a
shot of the Oregon sign along the beach, but alas the sign was
inland, nowhere near the ocean. ;-(
On our way back Anne pointed out some sculptures at a horse farm
made entirely of horse shoes. The family of horse shoe horses is
quite fun to see. Then we went to Lake Earl, a large freshwater lake
with many trails leading towards the water. I got my life BANANA
SLUG, the California state mollusk! Strange that I had never seen
one in 28 years of living in California. There were lots of really
neat mushrooms growing along the trails and at the lake I
photographed an interesting site in the dunes. Something had walked
along the side of the sand leaving impressions that looked like
sandpipers. |
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Horseshoe horses |
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Poached egg or mushroom? |
Sanderlings made of sand |
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NEXT STOP KLAMATH |
