I love that you can have a gnarly mountain hike in the back-country one day and a relaxing time, soaking in the rays at the beach, the next day! It was a spectacularly beautiful weekend!
Here are pictures from the trailhead of my hike yesterday. It was down, down, down about 2.5 miles, and then --ulp!-- up, up, up again. Good hike. My buns feel it today!
We hiked down the north side, away from the ocean.
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| View of Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Channel and the Channel Islands. |
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| View of the Dick Smith Wilderness |
And today, beach day! It was fun to see some marine mammals. Here is a video of them. The first bit is of some dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). They were very active and splashy. I think they were having a feeding frenzy. I wish I had had my regular camera with me. But I took video on my iPhone anyway. You can't see them very well, but I really enjoyed watching them! You'll be able to recognize the species in the second bit. And you can see the cruise ship that is parked nearby! Yay cruise ships!
2 comments:
Ooooh! A seaweed retriever! You don't see those every day.
Fun in the sun! Am I jealous!
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