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The whales of Baja: start the new year with a change in scenery that will change your life: a cruise full of activities, and nature at its grandest, in the Sea of Cortez
"WE'VE GOT A WHALE!" "WE'VE GOT A WHALE!" Naturalist Pete Pederson's heads-up is what everyone's been waiting for all day, and I win the first...
Sunset, 01/01/07 by Dale Conour · More from publication -
Glory daze: have art, will travel in Humboldt's Kinetic Sculpture Race
It's the Friday before Memorial Day weekend in Arcata, California. The great Kinetic Sculpture Race begins the next morning, and the Arcata Kinetic...
Sunset, 05/01/06 by Dale Conour · More from publication -
Let's get away from it all: how one couple did Vegas, Death Valley, and Palm Springs in a week—and made it swing, baby
Let's leave our hut, dear Let's leave our hut, dear Get out of our rut, dear (a) Late afternoon. A weekday. I am floating in a saltwater...
Sunset, 11/01/05 by Dale Conour · More from publication -
Design's best friend: Raymond Long shows the work of furniture makers and artists in San Francisco's Den
Four years ago this month, Raymond Long, a music writer from New York, unleashed his vision of the ultimate furnishings store on San Francisco. Den...
Sunset, 04/01/05 by Dale Conour · More from publication -
Boise foothills: valley of frost
Ice crunching underfoot, trees and shrubs shrouded in crystal--you'd think the world had frozen over, the final triumph of winter. But it's an...
Sunset, 02/01/05 by Dale Conour · More from publication -
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: sea on fire
Every once in a while in the West, a volcano masquerading as a mountain reminds us that geology isn't just about history: St. Helens in Washington...
Sunset, 01/01/05 by Dale Conour · More from publication -
Lake Tahoe, CA: the rising
Look at Lake Tahoe between winter storms and it appears calm, serene, a grand sapphire set in the rough folds of the Sierra Nevada. But no body of...
Sunset, 12/01/04 by Dale Conour · More from publication -
Food tip: spider eggs
If deviling your eggs isn't enough this Halloween, spider them too. Joanie Pimentel in Sunset's information technology department came up with this...
Sunset, 10/01/04 by Dale Conour · More from publication -
Bakersfield, CA: black birds
It's an eerie sight to anyone--a massive swarm of European starlings, some million strong, sweeping over a fallow field off State 46 north of...
Sunset, 10/01/04 by Dale Conour · More from publication -
Anderson Valley, CA: harvest time
What goes into a bottle of wine? In September 2002 in Mendocino County's Anderson Valley, a heat wave gave way to a cool spell, causing Navarro...
Sunset, 09/01/04 by Dale Conour · More from publication
