Playing Catchup

I was camping all weekend long with the family up at El Capitan State Beach.  What a great place to get away from the business of the city!  It’s just a couple hours away from Los Angeles, but it makes you forget that how close you actually are to a major city.

Here are a few photos that I took over the weekend to bring me current on my 365.  Bad news is that I’m headed to New York for a couple days and will not have time for any photos other than whatever I take with my iPhone.  So I’ll be dark two more days then I’ll have a couple days of my best iPhone images on my return.

Cheers!

Sunset at El Capitan, March 12

Rock Stacking at El Capitan, March 13

Rock Stacks at El Capitan, March 13

Nate's Rock Stack, March 13

Dawn at El Capitan State Beach, March 14

Sea urchin shell, March 15

Rock Stacking

Here are some more beach tumbled rocks stacked in different ways.

Cast and Crew

The Parisian

Sliver

Sun Worship

Nate After the Big Haircut

Voilà!

Nate After the Big Haircut*

* Nate is plugging his hears because Marie was busy making some shave ice in the kitchen.

Nate Before the Big Haircut

This morning, I took him into the barbershop to get his crazy hair back to a more manageable length.  Today’s 365 is a last look at Nate before he gets clippers taken to it.

Nate Before the Big Haircut

4 Little Rocks

I had a blast with this evening’s 365.  I was going through some of the stuff that Nate and I had picked up recently during one of our beach trips and I found these 4 little rocks.  The biggest rock was just a bit longer than a quarter as you can see in one of the images below.

Anyway, I started off by stacking the rocks on top of one another and then tried to stack them in different configurations.  The last couple were quite challenging especially given how small these rocks were.  I could have made it a whole lot easier by using some wax or something to hold them together, but that would have spoiled all the fun.  I think I might try doing this again with a different set of rocks some other evening.

The cast and crew photo

Easy Peasy

The Alternator

Cantilever

Wobbly Legs

Trip to Secos

Finally, I felt good enough to get out of the house today!  With Nate in tow, I drove up the coast to check out the place where I caught my first really memorable wave.  I was riding a borrowed 1970’s 8′6″ Skip Frye with a crazy vee bottom.  I remember making a bottom turn and feeling the sensation of being on what felt like an endless wave.  It’s a perfect little wave too.

Today, there wasn’t much size to it, but there was nobody on it.  I mean nobody.  I’ve seen it plenty of days this size with a dozen people paddling around each other to get one of these tasty little morsels.

Of course, I was watching Nate so I didn’t even have my board with me so I just tried not to look at all the little waves go unridden.  Instead, we tried to find some cool shells and picked up some trash here and there until it was time to head off the the park as I had promised.

Empty Waves

Nate showing off his balance

A crazy neon green anemone (no Photoshop, I promise)

Ready to head to our next destination