Tag: GooglePlusNatureChallenge

Langer Lake, Idaho

Pictures from my recent camping/hiking trip with Gnotic Pasta and two of his sons. We had a great time hiking, chatting, and joking around. I wasn’t sure I could keep up with Dan and Adrian but I survived. The first part of the hike in was a serious elevation change with a backpack. The plan was to hike in, set up base camp, then day hike to the plane crash site. We got close to the plane crash site but figured it was too steep and too much cross-country hiking (i.e., no trail). So we bailed out on trying to find the crash site. We are already talking about where to go for the next trip.

#GooglePlusNatureChallenge Day 5 of 5

Gnotic Pasta invited me to take the #GooglePlusNatureChallenge. You are supposed to post pictures of nature for 5 days. I’d like to invited Steven Spence  who has excellent photography.

https://goo.gl/photos/Lsu66qjuRqLDt8zr8

#GooglePlusNatureChallenge Day 3 of 5

Gnotic Pasta invited me to take the  #GooglePlusNatureChallenge . You are supposed to post pictures of nature for 5 days.

Here are some harbor seals, Phoca vitulina, from a recent trip to Goat Rock beach, near Jenner, CA. The Russian River meets the ocean at this location which might be why harbor seals like to give birth and wean their pups here. Apparently they return each year. Don’t worry, I kept my distance and used the zoom on my camera.

Also, we didn’t stay too long. The wind was wicked, easily 30 mph, cold, and any time the sand got kicked up, you were going to get stung by the sand.

I invite Gray Embry to the  #GooglePlusNatureChallenge unless he’s too busy celebrating his birthday.