Posts Tagged ‘pointreyes’

Alamere Falls

April 29, 2009

I made another trip to Point Reyes but this time the destination was Alamere Falls. It is actually located in Bolinas, CA in Marin County near Point Reyes. The Alamere Falls is a nice little waterfall that falls out onto the beach. It was a super nice weekend because it was really warm and actually a little too warm. The hike is about a 8.6 mile, 4 hour hike roundtrip and it was a good hike. It was not easy at all but also not super hard. We brought our lunch and ate it at the beach and it was a nice day with no wind at all. The weekend before, I also went to Point Reyes at the Lighthouse and it was super windy. 

alamere falls

Carrying a big bag full of camera, lens, and a tripod definitely is not fun and landscape photography is definitely not on the top of my list. Landscape and wildlife photographers deserve a lot of credit for bringing tons of equipment when they make long hikes out for those special shots.

The main Alamere waterfall seen above flows out to the beach facing the Pacific Ocean. The hike down to the beach is the hardest part of the hike as it is pretty steep, and not maintained. There are also two other waterfall sections before the big drop and those make for good shots as well. More info about the hike can be found here.

middle alamere falls

hdr of upper alamere falls

Point Reyes Meetup

April 16, 2009

lighthouse

Last weekend, I joined a group of people on a Flickr Meetup at Point Reyes. We met at the Visitor Center and apparently on weekends, you are not allowed to drive to the Lighthouse so we had to pay $5 to take a shuttle bus to get to the Lighthouse. It was very windy there and 50mph winds are normal. There is a 30 story stairway hike down to the light house which is a piece of cake going down but is quite a good cardio exercise going back up.

ocean

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For the sunset, we headed over to Kehoe Beach to get some beach shots and long exposure shots. Once again, it was extremely windy at the beach and it also started to get overcast as the clouds rolled in later on. Overall, we had a good time and it was a good meetup and the organizer, Medeya did a good job.

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long exposure 

More images can be found here