MrAndMrsIzzy

N171B98x18-1 "Incoming Tide" Cape of Good Hope (formerly Cape of Storms) South Africa. December 1998 The Cape of Good Hope, tends to be a pretty windy place. Looking at the choppiness of that water, reminds of how glad I was, to be on good old Terra Firma, instead of out there in a rowboat or small canoe.

N163B98x7-1 "Low Tide" Capetown Vicinity, South Africa. December 1998. Captured this image of coastal rocks at low tide near Capetown South Africa, back in December 1998. Hadn't seen anything like them before, and haven't seen anything like them since. Have no idea how they were formed. Their color sort of reminds me of rocks I've seen at Point Lobos, in California.

N162B98x28-1 "Big Splash" Cape of Good Hope and vicinity. Dec 1998. It's what it is!

N162B98x26-1 "Splash" Cape of Good Hope and Vicinity, South Africa. December 1998 I realize "Splash" isn't a particularly catchy title. But! It was easy to come up with, and basically, that's what it is (shrug).

N162B98x5-1 "Weird Cloud" Somewhere on South Africa's, Cape Peninsula. Dec 1998. This is both a coastscape, and cloudscape. I don't remember what time of day this image was captured, but I'm guessing, late afternoon. What I found interesting, were the different cloud formations, and the glow produced by the sun shining through the obviously, thicker and denser, lower one. One could in fact, make the argument, that it wasn't a cloud at all, but a well camouflaged visitor. (G)

N151B00x36-1 "Cleopatra's Bath" Turquoise Coast, Turkey. Oct 2000. The Turquoise Coast (AKA Turkish Riviera). Gets it's name from the color of it's pristine, clear, great for snorkeling and\or diving, waters. No trip to Turkey is complete, without some time spent on a Gulet (traditional, 2 masted, wooden schooner) that travels along that coast.

N115A98x2-1 "Untitled" Tsisikama National Park, South Africa. December 1998. The thing about cold, wet, windy, rainy, nasty weather. Is that it's great for getting o.k. pics in coastal areas. Fog, mist, heavy surf, etc. Can combine for a nice composition. That kind of weather is also great for catching pneumonia. The trick when you're shooting in those conditions. Is to do it where you're in close proximity to someplace you can pop into for a mug of hot chocolate, and a bowl of hot oatmeal. That wasn't the case here. As soon as we were done clicking, we jumped back in the van, and shivered our way to where we could get a mug of hot chocolate, and bowl of oatmeal. We lucked out on the pneumonia though. Didn't get it. At least not on this trip.

N107B99x12A-1 "Sentinel 2" Olympic NP, Washington State. July 1999. The Pacific Coast of North America, is an international treasure, filled with natural beauty. Hopefully it will stay that way. To find out how it got there. Go to your local library, or the internet, and look for information about, "Cascadia Subduction Zone" and "San Andreas Fault Zone".

N106B99x20A-1 "Driftwood Rising" Rialto Beach, Olympic NP, Washington State. July 1999. 1400 + square miles, altitudes ranging from sea level to not quite 8000 feet, alpine forests and meadows, 60 or so miles of coastal forest (including North Temperate Zone Rainforest), over 50 miles of Pacific Coast Beach, a bunch of glaciers, very few roads, and breath taking beauty. That's Olympic National Park. Rialto (where this image was captured). Is the name given to one section of that 50 plus miles of pacific coastline I mentioned. (I freely admit, that technically, this is not a coastscape. But! My wife likes it, and it was captured in a coastal area).

N073A95x28-1 "Cliffs of Mohr 3" Ireland Nov 1995. Ireland's, "Cliffs of Mohr", started life as a river delta, back in the "Carboniferous (aka) Permian Era" of the "Paleozoic Period", somewhere between 300 and 400 million years ago (the era is sometimes referred to as the "Age of Amphibians"). The "Carboniferous" label refers to the swamps and forests that covered the land back then, and eventually became the coal deposits of today. This is a sunrise shot.

N061B00x20-1 "Stress Relief" Acadia NP, Maine June 2000. No honking horns. No wailing sirens. No rushing to catch a train or bus. Fresh clean smell of salt air and pine. No concrete and steel towers blotting out the sky. No bright flashing lights to compete with a night sky full of stars. The occasional vocalization of a gull. The haunting call of a loon. And later. A slice of fresh out of the oven blueberry pie, and mug of marshmallow hot chocolate

N061A00HiRez36Hx29A-1 "Schoodic 2" Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park Maine June 2000 Storm battered, glacier scoured, Schoodic Point. The only part of Acadia NP on the mainland. No gently sloping sand beaches or high coastal cliffs here. This is one of the places where the Granite bedrock of North America, meets the stormy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. Wind driven waves from far out at sea, come in like freight trains, hit the rocks, and cause them to shudder. But! There are sheltered spots. Seeds carried in by the wind, dropped in by birds, or carried in by little red squirrels who live in the area. Take root, grow, and even flourish.

N061A00HiRez36Hx13A-1 "Schoodic 2" Schoodic Point Acadia NP, Maine June 2000 This image was captured at Schoodic Point. The only part of Acadia NP on the mainland. No visit to the park is complete without a stop hare. Even if it's only for a few minutes. No gently sloping sand beaches here. This one of the spots where the bedrock of North America, meets The Atlantic Ocean. Head East from here and the next landfall is somewhere on the coast of Portugal or Panhandle of Spain. Wind driven waves from far out at sea, come in like freight trains, hitting the rocks and making them shudder. The lighter rock in the foreground is Granite. The darker (and denser) rock behind it is Basalt. Both have been scoured by glaciers. Both attest to volcanic origins.

N048B99x30-1 "Sunset Beach" Kauai, Hawaii March 1999 We may not think of them as such, but beaches, are just as much a feature of coastlines, as cliffs and rocks.

N028A99x30-1 "Kilauea" Hawaii, March 1999 The plume you see in this image is from an erupting volcano. Specifically, Hawaii's Kilauea. Kilauea is referred to as a "shield" volcano. Unlike Washington state's Mt St. Helens, which is a "strato" volcano. Shield volcano eruptions tend to be less explosive, and take the form of simple outpourings of lava, lasting for long periods of time. For example. Lava flow from Kilauea was almost continuous from 1983 to 2018. The dark rock in this images foreground is from a 3 or 4 foot thick flow, that has hardened, covering what was once a modern highway.

N012A88x7-2 James Bay Santiago Island Galapagos June 1988 This image of James Bay, on Santiago Island, in The Galapagos, was captured in June of 1988, when we (my wife and I) visited the place. The island's most famous visitor however, was a guy named Darwin. He stopped by somewhere between 1831 and 1836. Don't think he took any pictures, but he did write a lot of notes, and made a lot of observations. Wrote a book about it. "The Origin of Species" Raised a lot of hackles back in 1859, when it was published.

N009B95x23A-1 "Gateway" Lemaire Channel, Antarctica January 1995 This view, captured in January of 1995, is of the Northern approach to Antarctica's, Lemaire Channel. The black color of the snow and ice covered cliffs guarding the entrance, attests to their volcanic origin. The channel itself is quite narrow and filled with bergy bits (pieces of ice from glaciers and icebergs). Passing through the channel, our ship moved very slowly. It was very quiet. Nothing disturbed the stillness. The only word I can think of to describe the experience is, Mystical.