Pages Tagged “Ocean”
Reviews
- Del Cerro Park ★★★★★ Incredible views of the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island. Also easy to get to and park. I haven’t tried any of the hiking trails in the area yet, but I keep meaning to.
- Four-Day Planet
★★★☆☆
H. Beam Piper
A fun frontier/sailing adventure, but nothing special. Sort of Moby Dick in space with everyone based out of a corrupt frontier town. - Key Out Of Time
★★★★☆
Andre Norton
Lost in time, lost in space, out of their depth, a handful of humans are caught in the middle of a four-way power struggle on the high seas of an alien world. - Ladera Linda Community Park
- Point Vicente
- Prickly Pear Trail
- A Wizard of Earthsea
The Earthsea series is one of my regular re-reads. It starts here, with the tale of how a goatherd grew into a wizard in a world where magic is woven through everything from the poorest village to the greatest palace. How he released a terrifying evil in his youth, and how he sailed the world seeking how to make up for his mistake. - A Wizard of Earthsea (Graphic Novel)
Fordham’s watercolor-style art is absolutely gorgeous. The adaptation plays to the medium’s strengths, allowing the visuals to tell the story when possible, keeping Le Guin’s prose when needed. Wide seascapes, rocky coasts, forested landscapes, people (not whitewashed!) and dragons…
Blog Posts
- More like “Sea ODDer”
This sea otter likes long swims along the coast, kelp forests…and stealing surfboards. (Story at LA Times)
- Last Walk Along the Coast Before the Virus (No, Not That One)
Last weekend, before the flu hit me, I tried to de-stress by going somewhere for a photo-and-nature walk. I ended up at the actual Redondo Beach, south of the pier. Partly because there was nowhere to park near the pier due to the Kite Festival, which now that I think of it may have been […]
- Spring! Sundogs! Silhouettes!
For once it wasn’t the ocean view, but the *sky* that was the most impressive sight from Del Cerro Park up in the Palos Verdes hills.
- Still Dangerous
Iâm not sure this fence is entirely stable. Update: Here’s another section of the fence that I don’t think I’d want to lean on! Photo album on Flickr: Del Cerro Views Originally posted on Instagram
- Top of the Hill
Del Cerro Park, at the top of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, on a super windy evening. I saw two tumbleweeds roll by, and kept worrying I’d drop my phone while taking pictures. I need to get out here (and other scenic spots) more often. Even though it’s not that far (one of the great things […]
- Layers by the Sea
The Palos Verdes peninsula sits at the southwest corner of Los Angeles. Parts of it are built up in old, grid-style suburbs. Other parts are of the more modern, winding type. And still other parts remain open space, due in part to the unstable geology of the area. Parts of Portuguese Bend are sliding toward […]
- Ocean Sunsets: Beach and Bluffs
A twilight photo of a lifeguard tower on a deserted beach, and a trip to the top of Palos Verdes to watch the sun set over the ocean below.
- No Fishing Allowed
Photo: A seagull perched on a post, looking at a No Fishing sign.
- Land and Ocean Sunset (Geography Geekery)
The ocean sunset looked like the sun was setting behind a line of distant mountains. But was it possible, with only the sea to the west?
- Catalina Island Inversion
The south end of Santa Catalina Island as viewed from Newport Beach this morning around 9am. The winds have cleared out a lot of the haze that would normally obscure the island, and I had a great view of its entire length. Interestingly, while the sky seemed clearer at 8am than at 9am, by which […]