A Case of Tecate Blues (or "The Ballad of the Champagne Ranger")

Hank and I made it down to Guerrero Negro just in time to catch the last boat of the season.  The good news is we had this mommy and baby ballena all to ourselves.

Adios California: Big Trees and Big Foots

Colby (an old friend from Washington) stands in front of General Sherman, in Sequoia National Park.  The General is over two thousand years old and the largest living thing on Earth (if we're not counting clonal organisms, and we're not.)

There and Back Again, Part Three

 

One of the advantages of being on Eastern Standard Time was I was up early enough to see this mountain sunrise.

Beach Architecture II

Here's another beach log structure on Shi Shi beach. The construction of this one remains a mystery, much like Stonehenge. My theory: aliens.

Sunflower Star

While starfish are common, these many-armed monsters are relatively rare.

Beach Shack

When people get bored on the beach, they build things, and when we find them, we tear them down. Here's a particularly elaborate example.

Overland Trails

At high tide, certain points on the beach become impassable except by ropes one has to climb up hand over hand like Adam West in the old Batman series.

Shi Shi

A foggy day on Shi Shi beach (say Shy-Shy), whose popularity exploded after media attention like this clip from the Travel Channel, naming it America's best wilderness beach. The beach at Shi Shi is fine sand, unlike the rocky beaches further to the South. It's also a great place to see starfish and other marine life at low tide.

Sand Point

The Pacific Ocean from Sand Point. As I was leaving, I ran into a couple of German tourists who were storming off disgustedly because the beach was not sandy like the Caribbean.

Eagle

A bald eagle looking for fish from atop a rock at Sand Point.

Petroglyphs

Just a few of the centuries-old figures carved into the rocks at Wedding Rocks. No one survives who knows their purpose.