Quarry Lakes in December

Winter photos from a few afternoon hikes in Quarry Lakes in Fremont.

 

Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park

 Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park, nice coastal drive and taking a afternoon break to play with my camera.

Outer Hebrides Islands

We are now watching the BBC TV series Coast and one episode was about the Outer Hebrides islands. Looks like an amazing place, with rough cliffs and the elements pounding them.

Ireland's coast was also quite amazing, even though I was not really impressed with the Cliffs of Moher.  To me they seemed a bit over-sold for American tourists.

Not impressed

Northern Ireland does have the Giant's Causeway, and when I first heard about it, we jumped in our car and drove up there.  This place I did enjoy and it's one of my favorite places on the Irish Island.

Now when we watched Coast, and they showed the Outer Hebrides, I also want to jump in my car and visit them!

What also amazed me is the wild-life, and the Puffin birds.  These guys live in caves on land, look like tropical birds, mate for life and can dive down to 60m underwater.  Amazing.

Proud little guy

Key West

Sometime in the spring I got a disposable water sealed camera and went down to Key West.  These photos were taken at the beach in Key Largo, near Miami.

Sadly this was before Google's calendar and the photos were analog processed so I don't have any metadata.  But I do have the photos.

One of the photos shows me swimming with barracuda's, something that I learned once I got out of the water and people were talking about them.

Pink Flamingos

One of the joys of a kayak is that you can see islands and hidden spots that no one else can on foot or car.  This is one of the bird sanctuaries in Tampa Bay that is only accessible by small boat.