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Category Archives: Santa Barbara County
Cover Photo Contribution For Sierra Club’s “Condor Call”
I contributed a photograph of spring wildflowers on Figueroa Mountain to the local Sierra Club’s newsletter, Condor Call. Editor John Hankins requested it and placed it on the cover for the April/May issue, which can be read in PDF format … Continue reading →
Posted in Santa Barbara County, Ventura County
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Tagged Backpacking, Hiking, Hiking (2), lupine, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pics, poppies, Sierra Club, wildflowers
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Mountain Sunset
A sunset view over the Pacific Ocean from the Santa Ynez Mountains in Santa Barbara County.
Posted in Santa Barbara County
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Tagged Hiking, Hiking (2), Nature, Outdoors, Pacific Coast, Photography, Photos, Pics, Santa Ynez Mountains, Snapshots, Sunsets
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6 Comments
Make Do With What You Have
Big surf headed for the California coast on 4-1-12. (Surfline) Scratching furiously through the choppy rough seas at a point break I was recently surfing, trying to paddle up and over a set wave bearing down on me before it … Continue reading →
Posted in Santa Barbara County
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Tagged Adventure, Adventure (2), Beach, Handicap, Non-fiction, Ocean, Outdoors, Sports, Surf, Surfboards, Surfer, Surfing, Tales, Waves, Writing
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Ticks, Lizards and Lyme Disease
A blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) questing with legs reaching as it waits for a host to pass by. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Hikers beware. According to the latest April 2012 issue of Veterinary Practice News, we may be … Continue reading →
Posted in Santa Barbara County
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Tagged Backpacking, Biology, Camping, Hiking, Hiking (2), Lizards, Lyme Disease, Nature, Non-fiction, Outdoors, Reference, Ticks, Trails, Writing
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Surf Clip. . .Finless in the Fog
One of this break’s usual suspects slip slidin’ yesterday afternoon on a stubby little finless creation. While everybody else out there was doing their best to follow the all too typical aggressive slash and rip style, powered by differing levels … Continue reading →
Posted in Santa Barbara County, Ventura County
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Tagged Beach, Nature, Ocean, Outdoors, Sea, Surf, Surfboards, Surfers, Surfing, Video, Waves
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