Thursday, February 8, 2018

Flying in an easterly direction

We landed in New Mexico today. I haven't stayed in New Mexico since 2010 when I took a train with my wife to Denver (never did that before) and then drove back to California with my son in his car and visited The Grand Canyon on the way. My son eventually comes home from overseas with his family  eventually soon.

I got to see San Francisco, the Farallon islands

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The Farallon Islands, or Farallones are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The islands are also sometimes referred to by mariners as the "Devil's Teeth Islands," in reference to the many treacherous underwater shoals in their vicinity.
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The Farallon Islands Are Off Limits to Humans — but Not Wildlife - The ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/travel/san-francisco-farallon-islands.html
May 19, 2016 - Just outside the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay, we followed the footprints of a whale. ... We had barely begun our trip out to the Farallon Islands, 26 miles west of San Francisco, but we had plenty of company. ... Although the Farallones are closed to the public, wildlife ...

Farallon Islands Live Webcam | California Academy of Sciences

https://www.calacademy.org/webcams/farallones
Get a rare view of the Farallon Islands' rocky shorelines and scan the islands for marine mammals and birds.

Farallon Islands Whale Watching From San Francisco - Oceanic Society

https://www.oceanicsociety.org/whale-watching/farallons
The Farallon Islands, just 27 miles off San Francisco, lie amid the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, a food-rich marine ecosystem that attracts whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions and seabirds each summer and fall to feed and to breed. Researchers have catalogued hundreds of individual humpback and blue ...

About Farallon Islands | San Francisco Whale Tours

https://sanfranciscowhaletours.com/about-farallon-islands/
The Farallon Islands are a group of islands and rocks found in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California.
Jan 4, 2018 - Web Cam. California Academy of Sciences host a web cam on Farallon NWR. Take a virtual tour of this refuge that is closed to the public. Go to the web cam now. Tideline Header ...

Farallon Islands - Visit California

www.visitcalifornia.com/attraction/farallon-islands
More life lives on or around the dramatic Farallon Islands, almost barren lumps that rise out of the sea some 30 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge. Sea lions and seals are found here, and the skies fill with countless seabirds. Farallon National Wildlife Refuge protects the largest seabird rookery in the contiguous U.S., ...

Great white shark stops swim from Golden Gate Bridge to Farallon ...

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Jul 30, 2015 - A great white shark stopped Simon Dominguez from reaching his goal of swimming from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands yesterday. Dominguez was 18 hours into his challenge with the islands off the city's shore in sight, when his daughter, who was riding along side him in a boat, spotted a circling ...

People (Not Just Birds) Used to Live on the Farallon Islands - Curbed SF

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Farallon Islands
Island in San Francisco, California
The Farallon Islands, or Farallones, are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. Wikipedia
Area: 211 acres
Location: Pacific Ocean

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