[Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

For a redwood?forest, it is very verdant. Some along the coast shade the 
ground so much there's little else there.
Thanks for looking Jim,
Bob
?Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com 



----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:07:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park

The second has a nice lushness to it.

Jim


Bob Adler wrote:

> After Yosemite in April/May, attention turned back to Big Sur. About an 
> hour south of the town of Big Sur is a California State Park, Lime Kiln. 
> If you drive in and walk down to the ocean, it's completely uninspiring. 
> The first time we did that and just got back in the vehicle and continued 
> on.
>? 
> Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into a 
> beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at a 100 
> foot high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular waterfall 
> with a couple of torrents showering down; it has about 100 little falls 
> that fan out from the top so the bottom of the falls is as wide as the 
> falls are high. Jim Brick has some good shots of it, after climbing like a 
> mountain goat which I wasn't about to do.
>? 
> Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mammoth kilns built in 
> the late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There are 3 of them, 
> each about 30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling apart in these 
> beautiful overgrown redwood forests. How they built these monstrosities 
> way up on this hill in the middle of nowhere and how they got the lime 
> stones up and resultant lime back down is beyond me.
>? 
> The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind of 
> place...
>? 
> http://www.raflexions.com/LKP
>? 
> Hope you enjoy these. Certainly worth a walk if you're ever in the area,
> Bob
>? 
> P.S. - Tech stuff: Hasselblad (flex and 203), Velvia 50 and FP4 taken with 
> various combinations of apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my back...
>? Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.raflexions.com
> 
> 
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