Holy Crap! The Perfect Winter Day??
Holy Crap! I'm pretty sure I've just experienced the perfect Winter day. The weather has been threatening to be great this weekend, and today it truly was. It's the middle of January after all, so the plan was to wait for it to warm up a bit before I headed out, but the forecast called for temps approaching the 70's.
The day started with the Man U. vs. Chelsea game (which started at 8am local time!), so I did laundry and ate breakfast whilst I watched the game. I really should clean the house, it needs a good vacuum and the bathrooms are due for a spruce up too, but the weather shot notions of domestication down.
The view across the bay was crystal clear and the temps were rising, time to get the Ducati out of the garage and go for a ride. The roads were in fantastic condition, and the wind was warm (my recent level of close to warm enough clothing ended up being one too many layers really, but was still rather comfortable).
The traffic was light and I kept catching it up at all the right spots (start of straights). I did my what is now becoming normal ride down to Lucia. I was all due to stop at the condor spot regardless, but when I got there it was packed - two different groups - some photographers, and a tour organized by the Ventana Wilderness folks. What a treat they (and I) had for the 20-30 minutes or so I was there.
Condors all over the place, flying around, flying close to us, always graceful, totally amazing display of Mother Nature. The photos below can only do justice to the occasion when you realize they were taken with my point and shoot digital camera. Yes, the big camera was home, and I had tucked the point and shoot into my jacket pocket - my little digital elph with its 3x zoom and full auto everything captured these shots - which just goes to show (a) how big the birds are and (b) how close they were.
Most of the time the birds don't flap, just soar on the air currents coming up off the cliffs, but one time one flapped as it went over me and the woosh of its wings made me jump - totally amazing!
The day started with the Man U. vs. Chelsea game (which started at 8am local time!), so I did laundry and ate breakfast whilst I watched the game. I really should clean the house, it needs a good vacuum and the bathrooms are due for a spruce up too, but the weather shot notions of domestication down.
The view across the bay was crystal clear and the temps were rising, time to get the Ducati out of the garage and go for a ride. The roads were in fantastic condition, and the wind was warm (my recent level of close to warm enough clothing ended up being one too many layers really, but was still rather comfortable).
The traffic was light and I kept catching it up at all the right spots (start of straights). I did my what is now becoming normal ride down to Lucia. I was all due to stop at the condor spot regardless, but when I got there it was packed - two different groups - some photographers, and a tour organized by the Ventana Wilderness folks. What a treat they (and I) had for the 20-30 minutes or so I was there.
Condors all over the place, flying around, flying close to us, always graceful, totally amazing display of Mother Nature. The photos below can only do justice to the occasion when you realize they were taken with my point and shoot digital camera. Yes, the big camera was home, and I had tucked the point and shoot into my jacket pocket - my little digital elph with its 3x zoom and full auto everything captured these shots - which just goes to show (a) how big the birds are and (b) how close they were.
Most of the time the birds don't flap, just soar on the air currents coming up off the cliffs, but one time one flapped as it went over me and the woosh of its wings made me jump - totally amazing!
posted by Tim H at 7:36 PM
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