At Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando there was a family of gorillas. This one was standing out near the front when we got to the viewing area. Then he got up an moved into the longer grasses; then he got up and moved again to be even further away from the strange apes who were looking at him through the shiny metalic eye pieces.
We’ll end the week with a photo of an Allamanda flower from Maui. Have a great weekend.
A starfish in a shallow pool at the aquarium on Maui. One of a number of photos from our trip to Maui last year that I uploaded recently into my Flickr photostream.
Actually the back of the train; this one was heading north from San Diego, and not going slowly through the crossing either. It is odd that the train’s designers spent time making it at least somewhat aerodynamic, and then its operator chooses to drive it backwards!
Oh, and in case you were wondering whether there was an engine on the other end too, look at the photo of the same train approaching.
Just as I pressed the shutter release, the wave took its revenge and separated the surfer from his board.
Running between the beach and the rest of town is a single track railway. I was expecting some kind of tourist railway, perhaps even a little steam railway (something like this one).
Instead, it turns out to be the Amtrak track between San Diego and the rest of the Pacific coast! Oh, and they don’t slow down as they pass through either.
While I see pelicans around the bay area regularly, it is rare to find them in a location where I can get good photos of them, at times when I have my camera with me. This one, taken on the rocks at La Jolla, just outside of San Diego, was in the middle of preening itself. They truly are magnificant birds.
Another flower from the San Francisco botanical gardens, in the Golden Gate park.
No idea what this is called, but it caught my eye as we walked around the park.
Most of the photos I took in the SF Botanical Gardens a few weeks back were flowers, and there were many beautiful flowers in a range of sizes and colours. While walking in a more shaded area though I noticed this butterfly on the ground, wings opened in a perfect pose for my camera.
On the way back from our Cancun trip last year we stopped in Houston for a few days. While there we took a day trip to Moody Gardens, down in Galveston. One of the attractions there is a ride on the Colonel Paddlewheel Boat; these birds were flying alongside the boat for most of the trip, enabling some close up shots of very graceful flight, like this one.