San Francisco, California, USA. Founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís named for St. Francis of Assisi a few miles away.
Spent an extraordinary week cruising around on S/V BOB, a 50ft Catalina, in South East Alaska. ‘Skip’, the little skiff in the foreground, was our trusty get about for all land based adventuring. Alaska, USA
Fall colours over the North Fork of Nooksack River. The river is lined with bigleaf maple (acer macrophyllum) which can grow to 48 metres (160 ft) tall. The Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State, USA
