2024_07_30

IMG 9250  Sweet, life-giving coffee. IMG 9251  Bacon bacon bacon. IMG 9252  No comment. IMG 9256  Cook's beach. Not much parking. IMG 9257  Happy boi. IMG 9258
IMG 9261  Ears up! IMG 9262  Silly face. IMG 9263  Probably not looking at the same Tik Tok videos as me. IMG 9273  Pollinators again. IMG 9276 IMG 9280  Needs a shave.
IMG 9281  Lunch at Piaci Pizza. IMG 9285  Bison lasagna. IMG 9286  Spinach calzone. IMG 9287  In case you want to have some of those little hot sweet peppers at home. IMG 9288  Clean plate club. IMG 9289  A traditional check-in at Chadbourne Gulch.
IMG 9290 IMG 9292  Fog moving in and still lots of construction delays. IMG 9293  Greenwood Beach in Elk has this well framed arch. IMG 9304 IMG 9305  Standing on that ledge gets your adrenaline going. IMG 9307  We've been down to this beach before and it's a bit of a hike so we skipped it.
IMG 9308 IMG 9310  One for the sea oats fans. IMG 9312  A little quiet time in camp for the weary travelers. IMG 9313  It's like this around here. IMG 9314  We have ignition. IMG 9315  Ling cod has richer flavor than the halibut the night before.
IMG 9316 IMG 9318  Satellites and the milky way. IMG 9319 IMG 9320  Different part of the sky a bit later. Scorpius dominates here. Phone camera does a good job with luminosity but doesn't get the reddish orange color of Antares. IMG 9321 IMG 9322  Walked out into the access road to get the milky way to line up with the long axis of the image.
Tiangdong pass  Chinese space station again.