A few years ago, I bought a kit camera at Costco, basically the cheapest DSLR you can buy. I use a cheap android phone and the camera cost less than an iPhone. It came with two lenses and the elephants you see here were taken with the long lens.
The beach had four or five elephant seals on it and this one was the most active and appeared the most dominant. He flopped into the water and began swimming down towards a couple of other males who were sunbathing.
He made a sound like a low drumming honk. The other males ran in opposite directions. One was flopping towards us so we also moved away!
Off to a different stretch of coast, I looked around at the tidal life. Snails munching some rotting seaweed.
A hermit crab hides inside a snail shell.
A snake, possible a Western Yellow-bellied racer was stuck at the bottom of the cliff and on the wrong side of a coastal creek. I moved him into some vegetation.
A kitesurfer, there were around ten of them that came and went. It was very windy. The kitesurfers seemed to be all middle aged palefaces with different manners compared to surfers. Their rigs use inflatable tubes to remain open, rather than rigid structures. Below are a couple of tidal scenes. The cliffs here are hard sandstones. The wind knocked chunks of rock out of the face which made clinking noises as they fell.
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Thank you, Lynn.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen anything like this in person.
Great photos, I never realised how much better even the cheap cameras are for getting good pictures Vs a mobile phone until my brother started using a second hand camera from Ebay last year.
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's fun to experiment with it and I love getting good pics of my kids, which my phone does very poorly.
DeleteGreat pics, nothing more serene than a walk along a beach without crowds of people, just nature.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
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