2 Guest picture by KT. I reserve the right to check TikTok now and then.
3 Guest picture by KT. Whiskey o'clock is just about here.
4 Tides Wharf chowda. Yes.
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6 We know a good espresso place too. Lucky us.
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8 We were there.
9 Summer is road repair season.
10 Telling people who are probably settled into their site in the campground that they need to drive to another campground for a basic amenity is quite the scandal, sez I.
11 E-bike achievement unlocked.
12 Set up and settling in.
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14 Happy boi.
15 Accurate wind direction indicator.
16 Little succulents put out big, vivid flower displays.
17 Halibut for dinner.
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19 Something bright is rising up and passing straight over us. Zoom in to the center.
20 Let's go look it up on heavens-above.
21 This was the (at the time unseen) star backdrop.
22 ISS matches the time.
23 That would be it.
24 Another bright one moving nearly 90 degrees to the earlier one.
25 Right through the handle of the big dipper.
26 Dark sky was amazingly clear considering how close we are to the ocean.
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28 Milky way easily visible by eye. Very impressed a hand held camera phone can do this now.
29 That second pass was the Chinese space station.