Carrizo Plain

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WW, great images, Carrizo Plains is an amazing place. Looks like you’ve found the Magic Hawk, that’s a powerful image - perfect for you.
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Awesome logo! You're right. The photo doesn't look real. Mountaineer, What a riot of color. Looks like anything in focus in that stuff would be nice. Could be wrong, but that bunnie looks like a young black tail jack. jls
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Great logo! WW! :clapper =D> :clapper =D> :clapper
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Wow Mountaineer, I'll make a note to visit Shell Creek too..Great Photos!

Thanks everybody!
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Not much hope for wildflowers putting on a show there this dry year. But miracles have happened before like in the miracle March of 1991. I was out there a couple times last spring of 2005 while I was working Shell Creek. Not nearly as good as the El Nino spring of 1998 and 1995 was the most recent mindboggler. Like Antelope Valley and some of the other desert areas, it is amazing how much more impressive Carrizo looks in the big years.

Soda Lake is the largest in that area but for photos, I prefer some of the smaller alkali ponds that one has to hike a ways off the road to visit. Mornings in that large basin often have nicely calm conditions for reflections. However because all is so flat, there is little vertical component to one's image frames so working the smaller ponds gives one more interesting components to the closer opposite shores. And one needs to pray for some clouds.

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Gorgeous pictures Windwalker...I love the little bunny..so very sweet.
Great logo for you!

Very pretty pictues Mountaineer

Thanks for sharing WW :D
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I just returned from there a few minutes ago. Incredibly bad weather. However, I still saw about 40 pronghorns, eagles, hawks, and a peregrine, wild pigs(about a dozen), and all manner of weird waterfowl. Awesome place and only took me about 55 minutes to get o Soda Lake.
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Where is this place? I lived in California for thirty years and never heard of it!
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BSquared wrote:Where is this place? I lived in California for thirty years and never heard of it!
The carrizo plain is pretty much due east of San Luis Obisbo ( http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/carrizo/ ) I've heard it referred to as one of the most remote places in California. I doubt that, but it IS pretty remote.
mountaineer wrote:I just returned from there a few minutes ago. Incredibly bad weather. However, I still saw about 40 pronghorns, eagles, hawks, and a peregrine, wild pigs(about a dozen), and all manner of weird waterfowl. Awesome place and only took me about 55 minutes to get o Soda Lake.
Cool. Sounds like you had a good time despite the weather!
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