Santa Cruz, Thanksgiving Day 2012

Santa Cruz, Thanksgiving Day, 2012

I jumped up about 4 am and left by 5 to go to Santa Cruz for Thanksgiving Day. I was really hoping for rain, fog, and mist. I wanted to go out into the woods and get some good photo's of The Haunted Meadow, and some good fern pictures and stuff like that. I was going to go into the Pogonip, the place we used to live out in the Redwoods back in the 80's, and see what kind of interesting woods pictures I could get.

Photographing the Redwoods is difficult because there is just too much there so you never get a real good clear picture. Nevertheless, I was going to try.

The first thing I did was go up to UCSC where it overlooks the Pogonip and all of downtown Santa Cruz. I found an abandoned bike and camera. It was a old film-style 35 mm Nikon camera, and a beater bike. Well after hollering around for someone, I didn't want to leave it there to be stolen so I called campus police to come pick it up. They came and took the camera but said the bike was too cheap to bother with and left it.

It was too clear for the photo's that I originally intended, so I went to the mall for a little while and got a few OK pics there. Nothing special though.

Next I went to the waterfront down by the lighthouse and got some decent pictures of the surfers and the lighthouse, (which is now a surf museum.) I also got some long distance of the other lighthouse, the Walton Lighthouse at the opening to Woods Lagoon, which is a harbor just east of the mouth of the San Lorenzo river.

Oh, and on the way home I got a few decent pics of a couple local landmarks, Solyndra and the Tesla manufacturing plant at the old NUMMI plant in Fremont. You'll find those on the slowly developing "Local Landmarks' page, when it appears.

All in all I had a pretty good day.