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California Day 7: Capitola, Santa Cruz, Pescadero, Half Moon Bay & San Francisco

Today was quite a quiet day... we didn't have anything to actually visit, but we only needed to reach San Francisco. So we decided to stop in every town we liked. The first was Capitola, a little ocean town with a nineteen century taste. Next was Santa Cruz with its amusement park (closed) on the boardwalk front beach. A little detour from the Highway 1 took us to Pescadero, a farm village older than 100 years. Then was Half Moon Bay and the beaches around with all the surfers (I posted a picture took in Capitola, since the ones I took in Half Moon Bay were made with the reflex camera). Half Moon Bay itself was interesting: a tiny village on one side of the highway and an huge and uber-rich golf club (with an impressive hotel on the cliff upon the ocean) on the other side... We arrived in San Francisco at 5 p.m. and we decided to take a free tour (means I didn't use the travel guide): I took pictures here and there, when a building captured my attention...













Tomorrow: San Francisco

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[identity profile] jade1x2.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
I just have to say you're an amazing photographer. Thanks for sharing!

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a photo maniac, so it's only a pleasure to share with you :-)

It's an hobby that usually I take for myself. But this time I decide to fix my travel on LJ and I hope to not bother too much my friend with this.

Elisa

[identity profile] granamyr.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
You went up the California coast and didn't go to Solvang or Hearst Castle?!

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I went to Solvang, but only since I passed by and it was too much a danish tourist trap for my taste... for Hearst Castle I would like to, but when I read that there was a bound tour of more than 2 hours I preferred to not: I saw real castle all around Europe, and I preferred to see the open nature of Big Sur, rather than shut me up in closed room. I'm a rather strange tourist. Elisa

[identity profile] zamaxfield.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
I love that you took the flat iron building...that's what that's called isn't it? I LOVE that building. I always imagined living in one of those front edge rooms, or taking it as an office...

You are such a fine photographer. All my pictures end up looking like monkeys stole my camera. You should create a book of your photos!

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
The Flatiron Building was for sure in New York. I don't know if this one has the same name, I took the pic since I liked it, not because it was a particular landmark.

My father was a photographer when he was young, so maybe he passed me some gene... he died when I was too young to learn from him, so I self-taught myself.

Elisa

[identity profile] author-aghoward.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Great pictures! Thanks for sharing them.

Have fun!

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2008-09-21 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm enjoying my holiday. Elisa

[identity profile] 4everinblujeans.livejournal.com 2008-09-21 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Wow.. that building near the cliff,very nice picture and the beach looks sooo coool. Thanks for sharing these pictures.

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2008-09-21 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
That building was a five star hotel inside a golf club... lucky who can sleep there and see and use the beach. Elisa
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