While Bixby Bridge is one of the most photographed bridges in California, it is likely that neighboring Big Creek Bridge takes top honors. Traveling north five miles beyond Lucia on Route 1, you'll see the bridge in the distance and a paved and often busy parking lot where people are out of their cars looking and taking photos.
Nepenthe literally means "the one that chases away sorrow" and it first appears in Homer's Odyssey... more loosely translated, it is the drug of forgetfulness.
However, the restaurant Nepenthe feels like entering a lair of one of Bond's arch-nemesis villains.
Rialto Beach, near La Push, Washington. October 2006
In the tidepools of Rialto Beach's "second beach." Near La Push, Washington. October 2004.
Near La Push, Washington. October 2004
Australia's most famous ocean swimming club is located at the south end of Bondi beach in Sydney, Australia. For just a few dollars, you can swim in the pool to your heart's content, use the sauna, or just lie down and soak up the sun.
The Valhalla is a big, blue 75-foot sailing yacht, worth 300.000 dollars.
The ship-owner and Captain is Dennis, a 50 year old flamboyant American.