The Ocean

[socalgal]

Hope you’ve got blue block.
Just the photo is painful in the land of grey.

Sometimes it looks like this:

 

[Jerez]

Donaana Nature preserve at Sanlucar de Barameda in Spain.

 

[Jerez]

Sunset Bar in SanLucar

 

[mikes781]

St John USVI this morning from our porch. Daughter was commenting on how the roads would make great switchback trails if there was only snow. I like how she thinks.

 

[luliski]

Redondo Beach with moon, last Tuesday.

 

[dbostedo]

Garden City Beach, SC

 

[DebbieSue]

The Adriatic, view toward Dalmatian coast from Postira

 

[mikes781]

 

[Jim Kenney]

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Where in the Caribbean?

I just completed a road trip from Wash DC to Nova Scotia. As you can imagine, I have lots of ocean photos. I'll start with some pictures of boats. These were inspired by @Doug Briggs wonderful past trip reports on sailing around the Maine coast.
This is historic Nova Scotia seaport of Lunenburg. We were told this boat belongs to Lisa Kudrow (AKA Phoebe from TV show Friends), and that she was spotted in town.

Same spot, this is Eleutheros. A Canadian couple made it themselves and posts on YouTube about their fulltime sailing this boat. hull is iroko, mast is Spanish cedar.

Kind of a boutique cruise ship off Deepwater port of Lunenburg, Pearl Mist.

Also moored at Lunenburg, this is Bluenose II, replica of iconic Bluenose I which was for many years in the early 20th century the fastest fishing schooner in the North Atlantic.

Can't see name of boat, pretty town of Lunenburg in background .

More pics coming...

 

[mikes781]

Where in the Caribbean?

I just completed a road trip from Wash DC to Nova Scotia. As you can imagine, I have lots of ocean photos. I'll start with some pictures of boats. These were inspired by @Doug Briggs wonderful past trip reports on sailing around the Maine coast.
This is historic Nova Scotia seaport of Lunenburg. We were told this boat belongs to Lisa Kudrow (AKA Phoebe from TV show Friends), and that she was spotted in town.
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Same spot, this is Eleutheros. A Canadian couple made it themselves and posts on YouTube about their fulltime sailing this boat. hull is iroko, mast is Spanish cedar.
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Kind of a boutique cruise ship off Deepwater port of Lunenburg, Pearl Mist.
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Also moored at Lunenburg, this is Bluenose II, replica of iconic Bluenose I which was for many years in the early 20th century the fastest fishing schooner in the North Atlantic.
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Can't see name of boat, pretty town of Lunenburg in background .
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More pics coming...

Beautiful sail boats! I have a soft spot for them having grown up around them. Sounds like a great trip. Been trying to convince my wife for a few years to take a vacation up the way. Too cold for her for a beach vacation. Need to do it in the Fall once my girls go away to college.

We spent a week in USVI St John. First photo was from the place we rented. Sat way up on the mountainside looking over Coral Bay. Great sunrises every morning. 2nd photo is in the north side of St John looking at Trunk Bay,

 

[Jim Kenney]

Beautiful sail boats! I have a soft spot for them having grown up around them. Sounds like a great trip. Been trying to convince my wife for a few years to take a vacation up the way. Too cold for her for a beach vacation. Need to do it in the Fall once my girls go away to college.

We spent a week in USVI St John. First photo was from the place we rented. Sat way up on the mountainside looking over Coral Bay. Great sunrises every morning. 2nd photo is in the north side of St John looking at Trunk Bay,

St. John! Wife and I took honeymoon to BVI in 1980. Looks similar. Glad to see region recovering from devastating hurricane Irma in 2017.

 

[Jim Kenney]

More from the old Nova Scotia seaport of Lunenburg:
Random blue boat.

The Theresa E. Conner, 1938, Canada's oldest Grand Banks fishing schooner.

The Maude Adam's "scallop dragger", we're told it raises hell with the ocean floor while gathering a catch.

Lunenburg lighthouse.

 

[Novaloafah]

More from the old Nova Scotia seaport of Lunenburg:
Random blue boat.
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The Theresa E. Conner, 1938, Canada's oldest Grand Banks fishing schooner.
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The Maude Adam's "scallop dragger", we're told it raises hell with the ocean floor while gathering a catch.
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Lunenburg lighthouse.
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Great pics. My brother in law once crewed on a sail boat that came up out of the Chesapeake to the south shore of NS (met him when he landed at Blue Rocks near Lunenburg) to Halifax. He said the weather particularly fog and some tricky harbour entries made it a challenge but a memory that would last forever. Looks like it was an outstanding time for you to be there.

 

[mikel]

managed to squeeze in one more trip to some warm water before the full on mountain stuff starts.