Above, city & county of SF looking across at mostly Alameda County (and at top of mountains, Contra Costa); below, Marin county looking south at C&C of SF and some San Mateo further south… Nearly done with posts from that last CA visit, and looking forward to my next, already 🙂
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 🙂
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.
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.
