Post photos of the area in and around where you call home.

Tin Fish Restaurant at sunset ~ Imperial Beach Pier.

 

Took the LC for a night ride to get its first dirt.

 

This must be right next door to Willow Springs Raceway ~ The Fastest Road in the West.

 

I love willow springs, supposedly it will dump you out in the Tucson wash if you take it far enough towards mammoth

 

I’ve been there! We used to get a condo right by the pier, my mom loves the sand castle comp

 

Went figuring I’d see a bunch of snakes - no snakes but did see an owl, 5 deer, few coyotes, tarantula, and an unidentified small mammal - thinking either a skunk or ringtail. Feels good to be out in the middle of f’in nowhere.

 

Oooo maybe it was a Coatimundi

 

Also a possibility - would have been a smaller one.

 

Excellent !

The high light of the season in Imperial Beach is the Surf Dog Competition. I hope you get to see that on a subsequent visit.

https://youtu.be/lgzLLgJrpyw

 

WTF is that???

 

Strange strange animal, swamp rats
https://www.google.com/search?q=coatimundi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

 

Neighborhood rodent in the backyard

 

Original Light House


Sub base at Ballast Point


Couple of pics from the Cabrillo National Monument on Point Loma.

 

Not bad having 85 degree water in party cove all to yourself.

 

We ran up to Canyon Lake on Tuesday afternoon while we were down there. IMHO - 85-degree water is nasty. I guess I’m full blooded PNW because I was really expecting a refreshing cold “bite” to the water to offset the 115* heat of the air, but instead it felt like stepping into a bath tub…
We’ve still got snow melt feeding our rivers and leashes up here…

 

We take what we can get, that’s probably the coldest body of water in the basin

 

Was that today? (Friday?)

Unless that water is within a few degrees of my body temp, I ain't gettin in.

 

Yes, pics from today - 7/15.

 

Actually they were letting a ton of water in (tons of tons actually) so the water by Roosevelt dam was 62. Nice and crisp. Cost me $15 paying $5 each to my kids to jump in.

 

Finest water in the Salt River Valley. @Kur

 

See, now 62 is more normal for us. That sounds awesome in 115* heat

 

It makes you go numb pretty fast. The kids say it feels like there is sand in the water because it makes them tingle.

 

Although, it would probably put an adult into shock!

 

Muddy River flowing off of “the Mad Mountain” that blew her top in 1980

 

Drove through Mt Saint Helens area in the late summer of 1982. Amazing how much it has "healed" in the past 40 years. When I saw it I could not have imagined it ever would recover. I was 18 at the time, the devastation was unreal.

 

1908 International Harvester. The girls posing for their picture with the vehicle were giggling away the whole time.



A pair of mid-engine Corvettes in red metallic paint. A 1965 (?) Mustang GT 350 Clone and an early 1970s BMW coupe.



A real 1965 (?) Shelby GT 350 ~ a late model CanAm Spyder and a 1970s (?) Porsche.

Our monthly Cars & Coffee event this morning. You never know who or what's going to show up.

 

I saw it for the first time 25 years ago, and it was absolutely amazing. We’ve done many hikes since then up very close - and even though it is impressive the amount of healing that has happened, it is still humbling to be able to see the amount of destruction.

This is on the Coldwater Peak trail above the northeast side of Spirit Lake. It is 6 miles in a straight line from the center of the crater. You can see how barren the area still is, and imagine the force it took to snap a tree that size off that high up (and lay everything around it flat).

 

It was just insane to see that 40 years ago. The force it took to do that much damage must have been overwhelming. We live near Mt Lassen, it last erupted in 1915 and you can see the scars if you know what your looking at.

 

Moonrise over San Diego Bay.