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Beach
 
La Jolla
San Diego
March 26, 2019
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Bee on flower
 
Home sweet home
 
La Jolla
March 26, 2019
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Bob-boy and Bobboi
 
La Jolla
March 29, 2019
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Torrey Pines
Cliffs
 
Torrey Pines
San Diego
March 26, 2019
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Cliff
 
Torrey Pines
San Diego
March 25, 2019
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Erosion
 
Torrey Pines
San Diego
March 25, 2019
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Owl's clover
 
 
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 Torrey Pines
San Diego
March 25, 2019
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Bluepin
 
 
Scorpion
 
Scorpionweed  (Phacelia)
Family: Boraginaceae (borage family)
Torrey Pines
San Diego
March 25, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
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Scorpions 
 
Seed alia
 
 
Poppy ()
Family:  (poppy family)
Torrey Pines
March 27, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Fibonacci
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Family:  ( family)
Torrey Pines
March 27, 2019
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Crystalline
 
Torrey Pine
 
Torrey Pine
 
Torrey Pine
 
Witches' broom
 
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Margot and Bob
 
Torrey Pines
San Diego
March 25, 2019
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Margot and Bob
 
(Coreopsis maritima)
Family:	Asteraceae
Torrey Pines
San Diego
March 25, 2019
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Torrey Pines
San Diego
March 26, 2019
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La Jolla
Canoe jam
 
La Jolla
March 29, 2019
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Wedding by the beach
 
La Jolla
March 29, 2019
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Wedding by the beach
 
La Jolla
March 28, 2019
Olympus Tough TG-5
Wedding by the beach
 
La Jolla
March 28, 2019
Olympus Tough TG-5
Pelicans
 
Pelican
 
Two gulls
 
Tide pools
 
La Jolla
March 29, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Chiton and limpets
 
Chiton
 
La Jolla Cave
 
Caves 
San Diego
March 27, 2019
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Whimbrel
 
Whimbrel
 
Pisolithus
 
Encelia bloom
 
Bob and Lucy
 
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Pacific sunset
 
La Jolla
March 26, 2019
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Gliding into the sunset
 
Gliderport
La Jolla
March 27, 2019
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Glider
 
Gliderport
La Jolla
March 27, 2019
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Cormorant on nest
 
4 eggs
 
Sea Lion tagged and silhouetted
 
Bee
 
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San Diego Zoo
Paradise
 
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Southern screamer
 
 
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Starling with larva
 
Kagu kaged
 
The kagu is a bird that almost no one has heard about.  
Or cares about.
Even at the San Diego zoo, which has two of them.
It has a very restricted range - New Caledonia.
It is considered endangered (though not critically endangered.)
It is the only member of its genus, its family, and one of only two members in its order, though even this link is questioned.
In the zoo, it is squirreled (or maybe kagued) away in an area that is almost impossible to see.
And even harder to photograph.
This was one of the main reasons I went to the zoo.
And I have to say that even though I was thrilled to see this unusual creature, 
I was rather disappointed with how it was displayed.
Avian currency
 
Sun bear
 
Maternity
 
 
 
Gorilla
 
Anza Borrego
Superbloom
 
Zarek in the field
 
Henderson Canyon 
Anza Borrego
March 29, 2019
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Bob and Zarek
 
Henderson Canyon 
Anza Borrego
March 29, 2019
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Fan of palms
 
Lotus Bob
 
Bob ()
Anza Borrego
March 29, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
PC - Zarek Siegel
Tadpole
 
A barrel of fun
 
 
 
 
 
Cracked up
 
Anza Borrego
March 29, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Pre-sphinx
 
Painted lady
 
Painted lady
 
Desert dragon
 
Close encounter
 
UCSD
Lucy, Bob, Darcy
 
UCSD
San Diego
March 28, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Zarek's place
 
Misc
Edison
 
En route
Where gaviota rest
 
Los Angeles 2019
Dinner in LA
 
 
San Diego itinerary - March 24 - 30, 2019
March 24, 2019 Sunday - Day 1 - Palo Alto to San Diego via Los Angeles
- Left after 10:30
- Got gas
- US 101 to Los Angeles
- Stop at Gaviota rest stop
- Drive to Vika Anikst's
- Up to her apartment
- Vika drove us to Westwood
- Dinner - 6:30ish at TLT with Vika Anikst, Zack Gold, Avi Bagla, Michael and Jacki Nelson Williams-Jones
- Arrive after 11 pm in Carmel Valley
- Stay with Rob and Margot Hillman
          
March 25, 2019 Monday - Day 2 - San Diego
- Torrey Pines with Margot
- Stop at Jimbos on the way home
- CVS to get Tamiflu for Zarek
- Go to Zarek's flat for the first time
- Walk a ways on the UCSD to Birch Aquarium trail with Zarek
- Watch the sunset into the Pacific
- Drive back to Carmel Valley
- Stay with Rob and Margot Hillman
        
March 26, 2019 Tuesday - Day 3 - San Diego
- Stop at Jimbos
- Walk a ways on the Scripps Coast Reserve trail with Zarek
- Drive to Gliderport area
- Walk down to the beach
- Long walk along the beach including Black's Beach
- Birds
- Watch the sunset into the Pacific
- Drive back to Carmel Valley
- Stay with Rob and Margot Hillman
         
March 27, 2019 Wednesday - Day 4 - San Diego
- Lunch with Lucy Horton at Salk Institute
- Walk around - end up at Gliderport then back
- La Jolla Cave with Zarek
- Walk to sea lions, nesting cormorants
- Watch the sunset into the Pacific
- Drive back to Carmel Valley
- Stay with Rob and Margot Hillman
       
March 28, 2019 Thursday - Day 5 - San Diego
- San Diego Zoo - glimpses of Kagus
- Grand Rounds at UCSD - Lucy Horton presented enteroviral case
-  Talk afterwards with Darcy Wooten
- Stay with Rob and Margot Hillman
    
March 29, 2019 Friday - Day 6 - San Diego
- Tide pools in La Jolla
- Ice Cream at Bobboi, in La Jolla
- Anza Borrego with Zarek for the superbloom
- Stop at visitor's center in Borrego Springs
- Henderson Canyon for flower fields and caterpillars
- Metal sculptures including dragon
- Get Gas
- Stay with Rob and Margot Hillman
        
March 30, 2019 Saturday - Day 7 - San Diego to Palo Alto
- Left after 11:00
- US 101 
- Stop for gas, Starbucks for coffee, and grocery store
- Stop at Gaviota State Beach
- Malcolm Gladwell podcasts
- Arrive Palo Alto around 10 pm - I drove the whole way
      
Acknowledgments
As usual, friends and family were central to this trip.
I am particularly indebted to Zarek who was the reason for my trip 
and to Margot and Rob Hillman (and Edison) who graciously and comfortably put me up in their lovely home.
Thanks to Aaron Kofman for suggestions and inspiration.
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