We’re off to Hawaii with Ashlynne and Paris. Our first leg is in Maui. As usual, I’ve done some whale watching. Not quite as fun this time as the winds have been very very strong – 30-40 MPH out on the water. I’ve felt like Jim Cantore out on the front of the boat. No breaches yet, but here are some pics:
Wow, it’s been a busy return from our trip. Trenna says this was probably our best trip ever. I can’t disagree. Everything went so well and everything we saw and did was just amazing.
Into the Peloponnesus
We’re back in Athens now, but wish we could have spent much more time in Turkey. I loved everything about it! Great people, great food, great sites. And their infrastructure blew me away. Easily the equal of the US.
Here are a few rough pics of what we saw in our quick 48 hours in Turkey:
I’ll write more about the meal we had at Oz Orfa later.
We went to the ruins of the ancient city of Ephesus today!!! It was just magnificent! Certainly one of Trenna’s favorite places ever. And very photogenic.
I finally got around to uploading the rest of the pics from Santorini. Wow, that place is so beautiful!!!
Santorini is certainly one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. And October seems to be a great time to be here. The crowds are light and the weather very nice, though a little cool for Trenna. I already know we need to come back.
Sorry it has taken me a bit of time to download and review the pics I shot in Athens. Here are a very few. Of course Trenna is posting 10x as many on FB. (Maybe I should just leave this all to her!!!)
We arrived in Kauai today and wow is it beautiful! Can’t wait to go exploring! Came down with a bit of allergies or something, but I’m hoping that won’t get in the way of fun activities for the three days we’re here.
I’ve had chance to skim the over 4000 photos I’ve taken on this trip. Three things became obvious very quickly. Hawaii is an awesome place. Trenna is a great model. And shooting whales is still the funnest and most challenging thing I’ve ever tried to do. (I ended up going on six whale-watching trips.)
Here are a few more pics from the trip:
We saw lots of momma whales and their babies.
Self Portrait
One of two adult breaches I was able to capture.
I decided to use this site to post some preliminary pictures from our trip to Lana’i, HI, while we’re here. Hope you like them:
Flying fish are pretty tough to shoot.
I believe this is an orb weaver spider.
Sorry there hasn’t been time or energy to go through the hundreds of pictures I’ve shot. Here are a few mostly unprocessed shots of some of the main spots we’ve visited. Of course when this is all over I’ll go through all of the pics and post a real gallery of the best shots.
