Photos tagged as scenery

Day 196 - Point Reyes, Drakes Bay Cliffs

The English explorer Sir Francis Drake landed here in 1579 and spent five weeks exploring and making repairs on his ship, the Golden Hind.

Date: 15 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: San Rafael, USA: gallery
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Day 196 - Point Reyes, Cliff Below Lighthouse

Workers had to haul materials and supplies by hand to build the lighthouse in 1870. If you look down from the narrow ridge leading to the point, this is what you see.

Date: 15 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: San Rafael, USA: gallery
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Day 196 - Point Reyes, Cliff & Beach

A view of the dramatic scenery from Point Reyes. The beach is in the distance.

Date: 15 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: San Rafael, USA: gallery
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Day 196 - Point Reyes, CA Sea Lions on Beach

There are some California sea lions resting on the beach below.

Date: 15 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: San Rafael, USA: gallery
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Day 196 - Point Reyes, CA Sea Lions

This is a closeup of the Sea Lions resting on the beach.

Date: 15 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: San Rafael, USA: gallery
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Day 196 - Bodega Harbor Jetty

Sonoma County has a park and campground here , very nice. It is in Bodega Bay, CA.

Date: 15 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: San Rafael, USA: gallery
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Day 196 - Tomales Bay Head

This shows the water/land combinations that form here. The San Andreas Fault lies under the area, forming the long, skinny bays.

Date: 15 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: San Rafael, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Sugarloaf SP, Rocks

This was one of the rock formations we saw at Sugarloaf SP. They get very mossy because of all the moisture, quite lovely.

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Sugarloaf SP, Mom & Rocks

We stopped at an overlook while driving down from the campground, I was looking across the valley, but Mom thought these rocks looked more interesting.

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Stinson Beach Surfers

Stinson Beach is the first beach on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge, still close to San Francisco however.

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Stinson Beach Rocks

I seem to take a lot of pictures of waves crashing into rocks, doesn't take much to entertain me...

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Stinson Beach

The beach is owned by the National Park Service, which doesn't charge for parking here! What a nice change from the CA state beaches...

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Sonoma Valley Vinyard

Not much different then it's twin, the Napa Valley Vinyards

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Sonoma Valley Hills

This is from the parking lot at the Jack London museum and State Historic Park (SHP).

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Northern CA Coast, Surf & Rocks

Along Hwy 1 north of San Francisco, there are thousands of spots like this with rough surf and rough coastline.

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Northern CA Coast, SF

San Francisco is in the far background. This is from the Muir Beach Overlook

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Northern CA Coast, Overlook

This is at the Muir Beach Overlook off of Hwy 1, north of San Francisco. I hiked out to the far end of course, very windy and a great thrill.

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Northern CA Coast, Muir Beach

There is access to the beach off of Hwy 1 down below, before it climbs to the top of the coastal bluff where the overlook is.

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Northern CA Coast, Mom At Overlook

This is as close as Mom would go to the edge. She absolutely would not hike down to the far viewing platform.

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Northern CA Coast, Heather

There was a lot of this growing along Hwy 1 in the Muir Beach area on Hwy 1.

Date: 14 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Sonoma, USA: gallery
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Day 195 - Lawndale Rd to Evelyn's House

This is the small bridge and road that leads up to where my great Aunt Evelyn used to live. No one has lived in the house in a long time (it was in bad shape when she lived there more then 30 years ago.)