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Continuing with Genovesa.
The lava rocks and pools.
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Continuing with Genovesa.
The lava rocks and pools.
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I’m skipping ahead to Genovesa, the last island we visited, because I have to start focusing on schoolwork rather than old pictures. Genovesa is known as Bird Island, and it is an amazing place. I would love to go back there.
Genovesa is a tiny, horseshoe-shaped island surrounding a volcanic caldera which forms Darwin Bay. There’s rock and mangrove and lots and lots of birds.
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Santa Cruz, unlike the other islands we’d visited previously, is inhabited. There are plantations in the highlands that have been there since before the park was created, and Puerto Ayora looks like any other tourist spot, with restaurants, hotels, and shops.
We were told that the fish market in Puerto Ayora was definitely worth visiting. This blue-footed booby clearly thought so as well. I love the “Nothing to see here, folks” attitude while he tries to get close to the fish.
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This is our last submission in this Paris After Dark series, so starting tomorrow we are back to just the morning OTR for awhile.
After our tour on Normandy in 2014, we took a day trip to Mont Ste Michel, then headed back to Paris. On the way we stopped in Giverny for a few hours.
I’m a bit fuzzy on which part of the site these pictures were taken – the captions are my best guess. They are all from early August that year and they were all taken by my wife who has a better eye, not me.
Monet’s house and garden
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We have another first-time submitter this morning for On the Road. Welcome, Mawado. This is how I picture an enchanted forest!
In the 1960’s, Castle & Cooke (yep, the Dole Pineapple folks) formed Oceanic Properties. The goal was to develop the Rancho del Mar sheep ranch situated in northern Sonoma County, California. The property extends 10 miles along the Pacific ocean.
They assembled a team of soon-to-be heavy hitters to create the place: Lawrence Halprin, landscape architect; Charles Moore, Joseph Esherick, William Turnbull Jr., Donlyn Lyndon, Richard Whitaker, architects. Together, they built Sea Ranch.
The design book for it’s distinctive architecture is simple, timber-framed buildings. Most of the buildings are clad in rough redwood siding or shingles. Some are stained muted earth tones. They often appear to be upscale, modernist takes on agricultural buildings.
Exterior lights are baffled to reduce light pollution at night, and there are no streetlights.
Many of the houses now are short term rentals.
The ranchers and shepherds of the nineteenth century planted rows of Monterey Cyprus (Hesperocyparis macrocarpa) as wind breaks. They have grown into impressive, if a bit eerie, corridors.
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My sweetie and I visited Paris in December of 2018 and had a little 3rd floor flat a block from the Pantheon and the Sorbonne. It’s a great time to visit, uncrowded and relaxed, and the weather was only slightly colder than San Francisco. This is eight photos out of hundreds. I hope you enjoy.
It’s Paris! You have to have a picture of the Tour Eiffel!
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On the Road: Week of June 28 (5 am)
We are doing something a little different this week. I gave Albatrossity and Bill a week off, and we have two new peeps with On the Road posts on Monday (Mactree) and Tuesday (Mawado), and then spend 3 more days in the Galapagos with arrieve.
Not to worry, though, we will be back to Spring in Flyover Country next Monday!
Paris in the Springtime: Week of June 28 (10 pm)
way2blue – Limeuil, France In June
Tom V – Paris in DecemberThat’s it for After Dark for awhile, unless Paris/France photos show up on Monday or Tuesday.
? And now we have some wonderful photos from new submitter Mactree. As you can see, we still have birds today! :-) May I just say that although I like to do lunch, I would rather not be lunch.
Couple of Opsrey fishing & flying
Couple of Osprey