Sonoma County Photo Trip

Took a day trip out to Sonoma County with my ex. The intention was to tour the wineries, but we never got to the actual wineries. It ended up being more of a photo tour, and seeing if we could discover any new and interesting roads along the Sonoma coast that we didn't know about.

In that aspect it was a productive trip!

We first stopped in Vallejo, along the way - as a friend of mine informed me of the presence of a former military base that was now open to the public - Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. This used to be a submarine base with drydocks available for submarine refits and the like. The base closed down in the early 90s, and is now a very large Superfund site that they've built plenty of low rent condos on. Much of the original architecture and buildings are now privately owned and available to rent out - super cheap office space, if you can ignore the PCB warnings posted on virtually all the buildings. We humans do ignore carcinogen warnings at our own peril!

For more reading on Hunters Point click here for the Wikipedia entry

Hunters Point Photos:









Sonoma County

Parrots, Part II

I finally got some photos! Found them after an exhaustive search of Sunnyvale.

Photo quality isn't as wonderful as I'd like, but they'll do until I get some better lighting conditions, share coordinates with the parrots, and have my telephoto handy - which makes it an unlikely occurrence, at least until the spring.

Without further ado: