Whale Watching, day 1

First Day of whale watching (link, enlace, lien)

All the way down to Baja California with the hope of having a real whale watching not like the ones we experienced living on the east coast of the US. Clear sky, calm sea, well a beautiful two and half hours morning at sea in front of us. Our Guide Albert, biologist, a young 30 years old Spanish from Barcelona, very rare to find european so far away from the old continent.

Few miles off shore the first sight of a humpback whale. The excitement was growing.

Well this was furtive.

We learnt few things about whale watching: to be patient, to have a fast boat and a captain who really put effort in finding whales. And of course not to forget luck on your side. We did saw whales (not as many as we were hoping) and more, dolphins, tortoise. Here goes my first experience of shooting whales. Not an easy exercise with a 100-400 mm lense in a moving boat. Here it goes.

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Enjoy

First Day of whale watching (link, enlace, lien)

Waves and more Waves

From the frozen Greenwich beach in Connecticut to the sunny beach of Los Cabos, Baja California, what a thermic choc!

This part of the Pacific is also called the sea of Cortés, known as The World's Aquarium and/or The World's greatest Fish Trap.

What first stroke me, walking down the 2 miles beach, was the sound, the strength and violence of the waves. Of course no one can get into the water. After watching them for a while I decided I would try to catch them in a way that I could transmit the sound and strengh of the backwash. Just drop me a comment to let me know you heard it. Hey don't drown yourself. :)

Waves (link, enlace, lien)

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Waves (link, enlace, lien)

walk along the Greenwich sea shore (connecticut)

It's not every day that we see snow on the beach. This was a nice walk with our friend Ray on Feb 4th.
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snowy beach (link, enlace, lien)

snowy beach (link, enlace, lien)

invited at a Porsche dealer presentation in Drogenbos

PORSCHE (link, enlace, lien)

On Thursday we have been invited at a Porsche dealer presentation in Drogenbos, Brussels. They received us in a special new section the Porsche Classic where their offer maintenance for their old cars. 

BUT they were also proud to introduce the new Spider 918, the Porsche 1st hybrid car! But hold on, this car reaches 0 to 100km/H in 2.3 sec! Fuel consumption (combined): 3.1-3.0 l/100 km! of course not when racing but I guess you understood that :)

For more on tech details and videos visit the Porsche website, but if you don’t you have to witness the record-shattering lap of the new 918 Spyder  6 minutes 57 sec for 21km, on the famous Nordschleife ring in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc9UUPNaOzE speed record broken. 

To see the photographs of the event as usual click on the link above or below

PORSCHE (link, enlace, lien)

Viaje a Croacia, día 2

Opatija - Pula - Rovinj - Porec - Opatija (link, enlace, lien)

Salida para recorrer la península de Istría, con bellos paisajes y ciudades llenas de historia: Pula, visita al anfiteatro, teatro, museo, fortaleza, arco triunfal, calles, catedral, templo romano, etc, seguiremos a Rovinj, almuerzo y tiempo libre en esta pequeña ciudad medieval, calles, palacios, iglesia Stª Eufemia, con preciosas vistas y comida. Por la tarde, continuación a Porec, con su magnífica Basílica Eufrásica, bizantina, patrimonio de la humanidad, muralla con torre pentagonal romana y circular medieval, plaza Marafor, antiguo foro, calles, palacios… Regreso a Opatija.

Opatija - Pula - Rovinj - Porec - Opatija (link, enlace, lien)

Viaje a Croacia, día 1

Zagreb - Karlovac - Opatija (link, enlace, lien)

Salida de Madrid vuelo a las 6 de la madrugada, llegada Zagreb a las 14 horas, parada en la ciudad de Karlovac.

The Austrians built Karlovac from scratch in 1579 in order to strengthen their southern defenses against Ottoman encroaches.

Zagreb - Karlovac - Opatija (link, enlace, lien)

Bernard's Travels: Italia marzo 2014 con Los Amigos de los Castillos

Bernard's Travels: Italia marzo 2014 con Los Amigos de los Castillos: Este viaje con la asociación "Los Amigos de los Castillos" nos llevó a la costa sur de Italia, de Napoles a Paestum, visitando lu...


Estas son fotos para los participantes en el viaje de Italia pero cualquiera interesado puede disfrutar de ellas.

Those photos are for the participants to the Italy trip, everyone is welcome to look at them.