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his was taken from a commercial flight into the Santa Barbara Airport. At top center is the beach at Shoreline Park, and to the right of that is the harbor. Just behind the buff cliff face at right of center is the Douglas Family Preserve (formerly the Wilcox property). At lower left of center is Arroyo Burro Beach. The dark brown open space at left center is the paragliding hill in Eilings Park, just above Las Positas Road and Cliff Drive.
If you go to Google Earth and just follow the San Andreas fault for – oh, a few hundred miles – you will get an idea of what an amazing feature it is.
Looking at the area near the photo, there are a lot of long "arroyos" that oddly parallel the fault.
I think your photo displays an artifact of the fault, not erosion, though erosion may well have played a part.
Someone suggested the indicated location for this photo is 'way off'. However, Panaramio policy recommends photo locations coincide with the point from which photos were taken rather than coinciding with the location of the object of interest. I like that policy. In this case I'm certain the position indicated is within a few meters of the actual vantage point from which this photo was taken.
Looking at this again I think of Disney's WALL-E character. This poor guy looks forlornly out to sea waiting for some larger relative to come wading ashore. The fence is about 2 m tall and I estimate the overall height is 8 m.
Hi André - thank you for the compliment. This area is only 120km from my home yet I have only visited once. It receives no rain for 9 months of the year and can be a hot and forbidding area. I will go again this Spring when it is cooler and the flowers are in bloom. Then it is a very strange and wonderful place. The flowers are mostly tiny, very low-growing and so profuse they actually paint the landscape in surreal colors. Happy new year!
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his was taken from a commercial flight into the Santa Barbara Airport. At top center is the beach at Shoreline Park, and to the right of that is the harbor. Just behind the buff cliff face at right of center is the Douglas Family Preserve (formerly the Wilcox property). At lower left of center is Arroyo Burro Beach. The dark brown open space at left center is the paragliding hill in Eilings Park, just above Las Positas Road and Cliff Drive.
If you go to Google Earth and just follow the San Andreas fault for – oh, a few hundred miles – you will get an idea of what an amazing feature it is. Looking at the area near the photo, there are a lot of long "arroyos" that oddly parallel the fault. I think your photo displays an artifact of the fault, not erosion, though erosion may well have played a part.
Someone suggested the indicated location for this photo is 'way off'. However, Panaramio policy recommends photo locations coincide with the point from which photos were taken rather than coinciding with the location of the object of interest. I like that policy. In this case I'm certain the position indicated is within a few meters of the actual vantage point from which this photo was taken.
Looking at this again I think of Disney's WALL-E character. This poor guy looks forlornly out to sea waiting for some larger relative to come wading ashore. The fence is about 2 m tall and I estimate the overall height is 8 m.
Hi André - thank you for the compliment. This area is only 120km from my home yet I have only visited once. It receives no rain for 9 months of the year and can be a hot and forbidding area. I will go again this Spring when it is cooler and the flowers are in bloom. Then it is a very strange and wonderful place. The flowers are mostly tiny, very low-growing and so profuse they actually paint the landscape in surreal colors. Happy new year!