2 posts tagged “ocean”
Okay, we're back on track in terms of the timeline, meaning this picture was actually taken in March. My folks had driven down from Seattle and we went out to Point Reyes, which is near the San Andreas fault.
Check out this map of the area.
The lighthouse is on the tip of that outcrop to the southwest. That straight line going up to the northeast is an amazing stretch of beach that is also one of the most treacherous in the state. In fact, up until a couple years ago it used to be illegal to even set foot in the water because sudden surges could easily suck you out and kill you. But that changed after surfers sued for the right to, I don't know, commit suicide by wave.
Back to the map, the long finger of water running diagonally from the upper left to the lower right? That's the San Andreas. And that curvy bay that faces south? That's believed to be where Sir Francis Drake first set foot on the continent of North America, although that account is disputed.
Not surprisingly, Point Reyes is incredibly windy, and it was really screaming on the day we visited. You have to descend a couple hundred stairs to reach the lighthouse, and I carried Harlan at some points because I was half worried the wind was going to blow him into the ocean. Which would have sucked. But we watched this sailboat come tooling along down that beach to the north, and as he went whipping by the lighthouse I managed to get a couple shots off.
I am in possession of both a digital camera and a kid. That means I end up taking a lot of photographs. This year I've taken 1,412 photos, which is probably the smallest annual count since Harlan was born. That, however, does not count the multitudes of pictures Tala has snapped since she got her own digital camera in September. Our combined production is probably well over 2,000.
In order to bring some order to the digital shoebox that is my "My Pictures" folder, I try to go through each month and pick the handful of pictures that are the cream of the crop. At the end of the year we get these shots turned into hard copies and put them in an album. This year I have just 67 pictures -- fewer than 5 percent of the total -- that will make the leap from pixels to photo paper.
In an effort to have our pictures keep up with the Web 2.0 wave, I will share one photo from each month here over the next couple weeks. This one was taken in January on our first trip to Half Moon Bay. The sky was too bright to get good people shots but this one captured that rugged natural beauty this part of California is famous for.
