Who Ain't A Speck?

 Ishmael would understand.

As would Pip and Ahab, though both would resist the obvious lessons.

And, who could blame them?

Mendocino paddling:

JP in the offing.

Magic Carpet

 

Buoy out front: 

Van Damme State Beach,

Mendocino

This shot is so much better on a big screen.

I Have A Kelp Tattoo.

Abalone: Mendocino

 

Thetis

 

Mendocino: Sea Palms

 

Swirl and Blur

For most of these pictures I was trying to catch the cool swirling whirlpool effect I witnessed when I first approached that rock with the sea palm. I lack patience, and will try again another time, but the sequence may suggest helpfully some sense of the swirling currents at play here just south of the double arch at Stillwell Point.

 

Watershots: Mendocino