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		<title>Photo Adventure &#8211; Merced National Wildlife Reserve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randy and I have been off on several photo adventures lately and I thought it would be nice to start a regular series of posts about one-day and overnight photo adventures that are close to the San Francisco Bay Area. My post about New Idria Mine and Ghost Town was a good start to that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Idria Mine and Ghost Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rotary Furnace building at New Idria which contained the four Gould Rotary furnaces. Over the holidays Randy and I decided to explore a place that his father had told us of; an old quicksilver mine and ghost town called New Idria. Randy’s father had been there a long time ago. The mine was opened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorful Sunsets in Yosemite National Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I made reservations in one of our favorite places, Yosemite National Park, for an “all U can heat” Camp Curry tent cabin during the full moon and off we went for the weekend. The &#8220;all U can heat&#8221; special runs for only certain dates. You pay what the temperature was the night before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-diver? Don&#8217;t worry, Bonaire has lots of fun non-diving activities!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoying our jaunt to beautiful Lac Bai. &#160; In 2008 Randy and I went to Bonaire with another couple, one of whom wasn’t a diver. This is a pretty common situation where a dive group or couple has a member that isn’t a diver or maybe isn’t as avid a diver as the rest. Sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monterey Shootout, Winning and Non-winning Images</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be a photo blog featuring a few images from the recent Monterey Shootout which I participated in. The shootout was organized jointly by the Northern California Underwater Photographic Society (NCUPS) and Berkley White (owner Backscatter Underwater Video &#38; Photo). It was really fun although the diving was not the greatest. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monterey dive ends in a burst of bubbles!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day started out so nicely. It was the NCUPS quarterly dive at Wharf II and there were about twelve of us participating including spotters (required by the harbormaster when diving under the wharf). It was foggy as usual as we were suiting up to dive and there was almost no surf as we entered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destructive Blast Fishing Seen in Komodo National Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cannibal Rock is one of the more famous dive sites in Komodo National Marine Park. Cannibal Rock is a pinnacle in a channel between Rinca island and a smaller island, Nusa Kode. The reef and marine life at this site are diverse and abundant and this site is considered by those who dive there as one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sacred Monkey Forest of Padangtegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn’t a post about diving or photography so to speak; however, if you plan on diving in Bali or Komodo or any of the other wonderful dive sites that take you through Bali you probably will make a detour to Ubud (if not you should) and will get the opportunity to go to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fond Memories of the California Beach Dive Photo Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art and Patti help me up the beach when the competition allowed beach diving only. It&#8217;s nice to have friends. Photo by Randy Herz. I went to the Monterey Shootout website to register for the competition today. Doing this brought up memories of the California Beach Dive Photo Competition (CBDPC) which has taken on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underwater Photography, Large Camera Systems and Arm Strain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Underwater with my camera in Macro mode. Good thing I don&#8217;t model often. Photo by Randy Herz. One thing I had problems with on our dive/underwater photography trip to Komodo was right-sided wrist, arm and shoulder strain. I’m shooting a Nikon D300 underwater in a Sea&#38;Sea housing, both macro (60 mm lens) and wide-angle (16 mm [...]]]></description>
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