Thursday, February 28, 2013

San Francisco

Fasten your seat belt, you are landing......
Golden Gate Bridge from Lincoln Park
Transamerica and Columbus towers
The largest minority is Chinese, most do not live in...
Chinatown
From Dolores Park
The financial District from Twin Peaks
The Latino influence leads to striking murals...
or this one at la casa de las mujeres
This 1930 building is on Market
Victorian houses in Haight Ashburry
which has kept some of its  Hippy past
renovated houses of Liberty St.
with elegant women
of different styles...
some rather shorter
steep Divisadero leading to the Marina
with its beautiful houses
many young people....
drinking cocktails at Union Square...
or a coke while working
or Grooming like this homeless woman
jogging with 2 toddlers along Crissy fields beach
and passing dog walkers with 12 dogs!
taking a nap at Ocean beach
or kite surfing on the Pacific
Mansion at Seacliff
the Conservatory in the Golden Gate Park
Yes, it's a cable car!
Diversity on Mission
on Market, black girl with trendy jeans and boots
this one smiling at the photograph
Kids public transportation!
The skyline and the Bay Bridge to go to...
U.C.Berkeley
and its cosmopolitan students... .caption

and a last look from our place to the sunset on the Bay

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Antarctica Peninsula

ANTARCTICA IS BIGGER THAN USA+ EUROPE! PENINSULA IS ON THE weST SIDE
OUR FIRST ICEBERG!
 BELOW WATER IS 8 TIMES WHAT WE SEE
ADELIE PENGUINS ON ICEBERG
1KM. LONG FLAT ICEBERG
FORWARDS WITH OUR SPEAR...
TO BREAK THE ICE...IT STARTS WITH A CRACK....
PENGUINS LOST ON ICESEA
CRAB EATER SEAL RESTING
ELUSIVE KILLER WHALE
RARE VIEW OF EMPEROR WITH ADELIE PENGUINS
WIND BLOWING ON ICEBERG
DECEPTION ISLAND WHERE SHACKELTON CREW WAITED HIM FOR MONTHS
GENTOOS SWIM LIKE DOLPHINS
HUMPBACK WHALE
NO COMMENT
HIKING ON USEFUL ISLAND
ONE OF THE MANY STEPS OF CHINSTRAP LOVE DANCE
OFF ZODIAC LOOKING AT BLUE ICE
LEMAIRE CHANNEL NORTH GATE
PREGNANT WEDDEL SEAL MODELING
BEAUTIFUL GENTOE
AFTER A KISS...
...LOVE MAKING
RARE ADELIE pENGUIN NURSING 3 EGGS
BY LEMAIRE CHANNEL SOUTH GATE
LEOPARD SEAL
kAYAKING ALONG ICEBERGS