Sunday, April 23, 2006

saltwater


The ocean is less than a half an hour away, but for some reason we don't make it there very often. This weekend we had a reason to go- John was working on a project of seascapes. So we went to a beach off highway 1 about 12 miles north of Santa Cruz. There are huge cliffs, and it's usually pretty deserted. We had a great time- there was hardly any of the usual wind, and we saw tons of wildlife. We even saw 5 whales! and probably as many dolphins. One of the whales was absolutely huge- I tried to get a picture of it, but it seemed to be camera shy.

We had to cross some railroad tracks to get to the cliffs.

A little bunny rabbit we saw on the trail to the beach.

The view of the beach to the left of our cliff.

Some sort of plantlife growing in a field near the cliffs- we couldn't identify exaclty what it was.

John relaxing after his work was done.

Behind us is where all the whales and dolphins were frolicking.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful pics! I would love to see the project :)

meganleah said...

I wish I could drive 1/2 an hour and see whales and dolphins frolicking. That's so cool!

Bridget said...

That's a great sky. How did John's photographs turn out?

Anonymous said...

we have to mail them off to the lab- so we probably won't know for a few weeks. but i'm really excited to see them!

Cristina said...

thank you for the reminder of what the ocean looks like...