Posted on October 20, 2009, 10:02 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
This past Saturday, I dived one of the most beautiful sites I had seen. Although I had done three trips to the California Channel Islands before, I had never gotten into the water there. Part of the reason was that, being used to diving in warm waters, my only diving experiences in California, near Monterey, […]
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Posted on October 14, 2009, 11:52 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
I’ve posted new images from Baxter State Park in Maine. This is the first installment of images of the Maine North Woods (trip report). Second installment next week. Baxter State Park is one of the largest wilderness areas in the North East of the US (the only other comparable area are the Adirondacks in upstate […]
Posted on October 7, 2009, 11:22 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
I just returned from a trip to an area of north western Maine known as the Maine North Woods. I envisioned it as an extension of my work on the National Parks. Since the mid 1990s, some have talked about creating a new Maine Woods National Park there. The idea to possibly contribute to conservation […]
Posted on September 20, 2009, 1:25 am, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
Oakland is the third largest city in the San Francisco Bay area. When I was working at the University of California, Berkeley, I’d sometimes drive there for a medical visit with Kaiser Permanente. Since then, Oakland has been largely out of my map, maybe because the perceived urban grit didn’t appeal. It wasn’t until one […]
Posted on August 30, 2009, 1:00 am, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
I’ve posted new images from all areas of Northern California . In this note, I will highlight a few favorites from the Sonoma Coast. It is rugged, isolated, sparsely populated and relatively sparsely visited section of coast, which is often shrouded in fog during the summer. When the fog lifts, before burning out it creates […]