Mt. Tam (Tamalpais) is only 786 meters (about 2500 feet) high, so not much of a mountain by California standards but more than twice as high as the highest point here in European NL. And as you see below, it slopes quickly down to the sea, so that rise is real.
On Rte 1 in Marin County last January, heading down to SF for the flight back to A’dam. Open ocean’s just the other side of those hills and of course these are all a bit tidal wetlandy.
Gosh, more’n five years since I last lived down the street from this wonderful park. Time flies, and hopefully I’ll be seeing more of it later this year and next year on visits and more 🙂
Back when my then-business job moved me from NYC to LA (more decades ago than I care to count), I came to love how easy it is to see the ‘snow line’ when you live by the ocean and have 2800 meter / 8K+-foot mountains nearby. I took this photo as our plane approached the Sierra Nevadas from the east on my ORD-SFO flight last year, from which I shared at least one past post right after the flight. These are other Sierra Nevada photos from that flight.
This was the first resting elephant seal my friend Steve & I saw as our group walked with our docent towards the main elephant-seal conglomeration, up and over a dune from where this guy was resting. All on the coast of San Mateo County.
Spectacular modern Japanese ceramic art at SF’s wonderful Asian Art Museum – which has several personal favorite spots and is a must visit, IMHO, for anyone going to SF :-).
Though we’ve plenty of coastline here in NL, I don’t tend to get over to it often…and since I so rarely get to my deeply beloved CA coastline these days, I tend to overdo the images when I do get there, so … all of these were taken on the first day of this year in northernmost Sonoma County.
