Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

When we show up, we win.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

We will not go back.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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Today, pictures from valued commenter J R in WV.

This is the next set of photos from Baja California Sur … When we got to snorkel with Sea Lions.

Rocks around the small bay where the sea lions play.

Taken on 2018-03-08

Bay of California / Sea of Cortez… Baja California Sur, Mexico

The Sea of Cortez is an antique name, now the official name is Bay of California.

The young sea lion pups are the only sea lions interested in finding out about the strange critters who sometimes visit their little world. They hang out on the rocks around this little bay, and people visit them on boths sides of these rocks.

f/3.9 for 1/1000 sec at 115 mm with the Panasonic DMC-FZ1000

Some Fishes in the Sea

Taken on 2018-03-08

Bay of California / Sea of Cortez east of Baja California Sur, Mexico

The Sea of Cortez is an antique name, now the official name is Bay of California.

This is a picture of some of the many fish we saw while swimming around with mask and snorkel.

The Sea Lion Attacks !!

Taken on 2018-03-08

Bay of California / Sea of Cortez east of Baja California Sur, Mexico

The Sea of Cortez is an antique name, now the official name is Bay of California.

This is my first shot of a sea lion, as the youngster shoots past while I can’t even point as fast as it swims past.

More Fishes

Taken on 2018-03-08

Bay of California / Sea of Cortez east of Baja California Sur, Mexico

The Sea of Cortez is an antique name, now the official name is Bay of California.

Another picture while I snorkeled among the sea lions – different fish.

Sea Lion in the Sun

Taken on 2018-03-08

Bay of California / Sea of Cortez east of Baja California Sur, Mexico

The Sea of Cortez is an antique name, now the official name is Bay of California.

This time the sea lion slowed down…I don’t think they really ever stop completely.

 

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  1. 1.

    Alain the site fixer

    Sorry for the delay, folks. I fat fingered this and just realized it.

  12. 12.

    Waratah

    Wonderful photos I have really enjoyed your trip. Why do I find The Sea Of Cortez more romantic than The Bay of California?

  13. 13.

    J R in WV

    Well, the Sea of Cortes was it’s first name, which morphed to The Sea of Cortez, which I guess some map-drawer thought was more exotic? It was the Sea of Cortez for a very long time, was still named after Cortez when John Steinbeck and his biologist buddy visited it.

    It was romantic, the sunsets were all beautiful, there were dolphins swimming around the ship several times, the Captain announced a beautiful sunrise with dolphins overt the PA system, we had local musicians “The Two Coyotes of MAgdanela” in the lounge one evening after dinner. I tipped the hell out of them, I always tip musicians. In a prior life I played piano in a cocktail lounge with 2 buddies, and tips were a big part of our take!

    There’s one more set of photos to come, scenic pictures of the Baja mountains and the rocky seashore, with the last sunset of the voyage. I took nearly 2500 photos, partly by shooting both JPG files and RAW files with the Panasonic, AND by automatically bracketing exposures, which meant every shot had the automatically set exposure and two photos set brighter and darker. And there were 6 files generated each time I pressed the shutter button, so more like 500 individual photos with the Panasonic

    The Olympus TG-5 didn’t shoot RAW, or I didn’t find the setting to shoot RAW, and I didn’t try to set it for exposure bracketing. I only used it when we were playing with whales or sea lions, the Panasonic is a way more capable camera, but not waterproof as the TG-5 is. I took about 400 with the Olympus TG-5 in and around the water over 3 days.

    I obviously spent a lot of time filtering pictures of pretty shimmering water out…

    Oh, there’s some photos of two museums in LA, the Museum of Natural History and the Getty, shining white on a hilltop. So I may do something with those.

    Thanks again for the compliments, much appreciated!

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