Start: San Diego, CA
Finish: San Diego, CA
Miles Today: 0
Miles To Date: 913
Trooper Mileage: 169905
Just
another relaxing day with a trip to the beach and a visit to Scripps
Institute of Oceanography, which was a treat for me. If I had been
more disciplined back when I was doing the university thing, I could very
well have gone to grad school in marine biology or oceanography. As it is,
with scuba training and a number of travels to tropical locations, as well
as a summer at sea back when I was at Lehigh, I got to do a lot of that stuff
anyway.
Scripps,
as you would expect, had a very nice aquarium. I got this picture of a couple
of leopard sharks there. It is a little blurry, since it was taken thru a
foot thick plexiglas wall. The picture of the sea dragon here (a really fancy
sea horse) is interesting because the colors, brightness and contrast have
been enhanced from the original picture through software. In the original
the animal was much less visible against the background.
In
this other picture of me, overlooking the ocean with La Jolla in the background,
I just lightened up a box containing me (my features were barely visible)
so the other parts of the picture wouldn't get washed out.