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.
For some reason we call it clouds when it’s “in the sky” but mist or fog when it’s around ground level. Whatever we call it, here you see that essential source o’ life lying low in the valley and also up high partially blocking the view of good ol’ Mt St Helena :-).
Something of a love letter to the Sonoma County landscapes that feel more like home to me than most other parts of this beautiful world where I’ve lived or visited. All from a walk in early January. Probably most easily seen in “view full site” mode, if you’re on a phone or tablet, since the gallery below carries quite a few photos.
