Picture Notes

Sleeping on the Docks

If you are a large tasty animal and there are larger animals where you live that will kill and eat you, a safe harbor is exactly what you need: A place to rest and relax and talk to your friends and family - a home. And a place to be alone if that’s what you want.

These California Sea Lions seem to have it made - they live in San Francisco on the bay and don’t pay taxes, or rent and they get to wear fur coats and still be Californians, like movie stars. They don’t even have to buy food. The life seems idyllic except that when they go back in the water there are some very large Great White Sharks that think of them as food. It would be fun to say it’s like being a human at work, except it isn’t.

There are nice articles on the Pier 39 Sea Lions on the web and if you google them you will see that they are larger than most of us and swim much better.

An Amazing Opportunity

We were fishing for Sailfish from a small boat off the coast of Puerto Escondido when this school of Porpoise showed up to play with our boat. They swam in front of and next to our boat for several minutes. Our fishing guide didn’t think anything of it but I thought it was amazing and made this photograph, there are about 8 more and another is offered through my istockphoto.com account.

It was one of those times when the photographer part of me took over and the other part of me lost consciousness, you could say I woke up for a minute or two. It’s always nice when it happens but never seems to happen enough. I’m happy to have had the opportunity to take the set of photographs because I find them interesting. I don’t think there is anything visually better than water that is clear that goes down to forever and large and playful fellow passengers on this planet where we live.