Hello! I took some more photos of Point Lobos, but this time there's less splashing and more overcast skies. It was still nice and warm, but I had to actually wear a sweatshirt the entire time. I know, life sucks and then you die. I had to wear a sweatshirt in February. Poor me. :(
We also went to Carmel (before Point Lobos, but the pictures are after Point Lobos. They aren't chronological, sheesh, let up on me!) and spent some time on the beach. It's a very dog friendly beach, and it was great to see everyone out there with their animal friends too.
As you can tell, the trip started as a mushroom and disease hunt! Elisabeth and I sure are fun. We look for decay, rot, bacteria, and viruses everywhere we go.
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| Some disease kickin' this plant's ass. |
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| This one was really neat because it appears to have holes burned through it. |
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| Mycelia! We moved a fallen log expecting to find mycelia, and look, we found it! This is the part of fungus that you normally don't see. When it's ready to form spores, it typically forms a fruiting body (the mushroom / cap.) It does look like cobwebs, and it's probably in the ground underneath you everywhere you go. Mycelia will invade your body when you're dead. =^) Unless you're cremated...OH WAIT, It'll still eat you! |
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Fruiting bodies of the above mycelia! It's like a beautiful flower that eats dead organic material instead of sunlight.
Mushrooms and fungus are so cool. Especially when they are this photogenic. |
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| More mushrooms - these all popped up after the nice rain storms that we had recently. |
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| This one was especially cool, in my opinion. It's a large dead mushroom that was once growing on a live tree. But, unfortunately, the mushroom seemed to have died...and is now being consumed by another type of mold! It appears to be an Aspergillus of some sort. (I don't have tools to identify this sort of stuff.) |
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| Nifty little spider, seen here collecting dew. I wonder if spiders drink / eat the water off their webs? I've never thought about that before now. |
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| Some sweet chromatic shells that we found on the beach. I might have nicked 'em after this photo. Maybe I didn't. You have no evidence! |
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Some living creatures on a rock at Point Lobos' "Hidden Beach". I am not sure what they are. There's a mussel in the middle, and they kind of look barnacle-ish, but I'm not convinced. #fuckifIknow
They're kinda creepy...and Lovecraftian... |
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Kuh-kaw, bitches! Try to splash me now!
There were lots of raptors out hunting. |
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| Elisabeth under siege by the ocean spray and the wind. Hint: her hair lost the fight. :( |
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| A California Poppy! My mom has this in Pocatello, they remind me of home. Odd that the California Poppy reminds me of Idaho. |
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| Cute deer. What, I am not a writer, I can't come up with captions for everything... |
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You know how I feel about splash photos.
The sea was actually green here! We had to do some dangerous rock climbing to get in to this position - I slipped and almost took a rocky landing to the face. |
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"Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to hear the word of SPLISH SPLASH BEIATCH!"
What a tasteless caption. I'll leave it. |
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| All these poor people being consumed by the mist. I can feel "Silent Hill: Carmel" rolling in off the ocean. Skinless dogs, I'm coming for you! |
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Sad girls por vida.
(She's not really sad, she's in wet toes ecstasy.) |
Elisabeth cannot resist putting her feet in the ocean. Whenever we get near the water, she starts breathing heavily and her eyes dilate...she looks at me and slowly asks, "Can I..."
*heavy breathing*
"...put my feet..."
*heavy breathing intensifies*
"IN THE OCEAN?"
She never stops to consider how difficult it is to put on socks after your feet are soaked. Plus, sand on the feet. It's a miserable cycle; you try to wash off the sand in the water, but then more sand sticks to your feet as you move away from the water.
I just wear boots and make this face when she asks me to join her:
