Wide boulevards lined with Mediterranean Revival-style mansions; graceful fountains, coral rock pools and tropical gardens--Coral Gables, is an elegant, easygoing South Florida city creating a perfect blend of Old World and New World attractions. Since it's glamorous founding in the "Roaring 20s" by developer George Merrick, the "City Beautiful" as it is often called, has been known for its Mediterranean theme, as well as restaurant and entertainment scene.
View of Taylor Creek and walker's bridge overlooking Taylor Creek. Here you can view Kokanee Salmon spawning in the fall.
The mist rises off Taylor Creek in the early morning. This creek leads to Lake Tahoe and is the spawing creek for Kokanee Salmon.
One the sun sets, the temps drop and you crab anything you can to stay warm and to protect your skin for the bitter chill.
No one returns to their room after dinner without the accompanyment of a rifle toting ranger on the Shamwari Game Reserve in South Africa.
View from your bed at the Eagles Crag Lodge, Shamwari Game Reserve, near Port Douglas, South Africa. Brad Pitt slept here a few months before my visit.
With all the excessive shutter clicking much like the paps of LA, we must have angered the fellow, because he decided to throw a charge at our Land Rover just to prove who the boss is.
by this time we all pretty much ready to capture our ending on video or jpgs, and if you look closely at the driver, Ranger Ryan, he has his right hand on the rifle.
Preparing for his statement of power...the charge.