I was amazed at the amount of red tide we saw today. We have seen red tide from the air before, but never near this amount. ~ Anne
1204-Big Red Tide
Note: this is the eastern shore of El Capitan State Beach.
2010/07/03
Joy Day
Today we celebrated the joy of our first “official” flight alone together (the day I earned my license 7/2/06), by flying our friend Joy to celebrate her birthday. As the date portended, it was a joyful flight! Shorter than we planned, due to minor delays getting aloft and major winds once we reached Gaviota Pass. So rather than climb above the turbulence and fly too far above earth to most richly enjoy it, we stayed low along the coast in the lee of the mountains for a leisurely return to SBA.
7566 Oil Seeps
There were some oil seeps close to shore, and later we saw an intense “red tide” as reported in my post about the flight on Edhat.com (see the right column link here for more of my posts there).
7581 Pass Pad
Just to the west of Gaviota Pass is a concrete pad and three green tanks, as if someone is planning to build a home or perhaps park a modular home there. We had planned to fly out and look for whales at Point Conception (barely visible in the distance), but we’ll try again another day.
7577 Dolphin Phun
We had a lot of “phun” watching several different dolphin feeding activites. In this one you can see that some of them swim on their backs, and how closely involved the pelicans get. I’ve posted a few more pix from the flight on my Photo Page, so click on the link in the column at the right to see those.
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John & Anne Wiley 
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