California Dreamin

Our son's wedding took us to CA to negotiate the 16 lane freeways and cloverleafs.  Still a little time for this around the happy event:

Sleepy and with definite aroma, these sea lions at La Jolla  put up with the tourists close on the rocks.  The cormorants guano provided the most distinction.  A photographer with 3m lens told us they had sprayed the guano that morning to appease the inhabitants and tourists.

Variety at the famous San Diego Zoo.

Some mighty colourful lizarrds and snakes peered back through the glass at the zoo.

Simple Soledad Mission, one of many within a day's ride of each other  right up California

.  This one off the beaten track in the middle of the market garden region, all labour was Hispanic.

Loved this tin Ford Tri Motor at the San Diego Air and Space Museum at  Balboa Park.  Something  I imagine Indiana Jones or Tin Tin would fly in.

This defended the gates of Fort Hunter Liggett.  An Army base well off the freeway.

Bronze of 'The Top Men' hauling in the sheets at Dana Point, adjacent to a well restored whaler 'Boston' smelling of tar and garnered in 100's of miles of ropes.

One of Rodin's Thinkers, this one at Stanford University, Palo Alto - among 90 of his other works.  I was surprised he was a turn of the century guy.  Really early.