Point No Point on Vancouver Island
My friend and I had travelled along the West Coast Road (aka HWY 14) as part of a sketching trip in 2003. Sue and I followed a path that ran […]
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Berck-sur-Mer on the Opal Coast of Northern France
Berck-sur-Mer was a famous ‘spa’* town in the 19th Century. The beach at Berck-sur-Mer with a church and the old Sanitorium in the background. The Sanitorium is being torn down […]
Zihuatanejo on the Mexican Pacific Coast
December 8, 2019. One of the other guests in our hotel had mentioned Playa Ropa, up the highway a short ways and then down a steep walkway.We decided to try […]
Confessions of a Pebble Picker-Upper
I blame my mom. We’d wander along the nearby Qualicum Beach and pick up so many beach pebbles that we were staggering under the load. Then we’d bring them home. […]
Side trip from Delft to the Dunes in Holland
On our second day in Delft we decided make a side trip to see some more of Holland. We stopped in Gouda but we could only find was one hour […]
Freshwater East, a Beach with Two-Tone Rocks in Wales
June 7, 2016. Started the day off right with kippered herrings and a poached egg in Milford Haven. From here we headed across to the Pembrokeshire Coast peninsula looking for a […]
Playa Junquillal y Playa Negra en Costa Rica
We arrived at Playa Junquillal after a long bumpy ride. The road was so bad that Al said he could no longer drive it. I agreed instantly; my seatbelt choked […]
Christmas Festivities in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
We arrived in Zihuatanejo, Mexico just in time for their Christmas festivities. In the main plaza preparations were on for Christmas performances. Costumes for the Christmas performances in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. […]
Sandy Beaches from Around the World
A collection of sandy beaches from all over the world. These sea creatures are a special one-of-kind jellyfish called ‘By-the-wind-sailor’, Velella velella. They were washing up all over the west […]
Backcountry Roads on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales
May 31, 2016. A drive along a series of twisting backcountry roads on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. Leaving the collection of several medieval structures at Penmon, we passed […]
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