2002_07_06_Torrey_Pines_parasailing

I didn't really go up to take pictures, and that shows by the number of shots I lost to motion blur. Note to self: polarized sun glasses make reading LCD displays very difficult. Also, it may not feel like you're going that fast in a parasail, but you really are. Parasailing at Torrey Pines was tons of fun, and my pilot (Tad Hurst) was really interesting and a pleasure to work with.

There's a good chance I'll go back and clean these up later, but for now it's just a raw camera dump.

shot while parasailing shot while parasailing

shot while parasailing shot while parasailing

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nude beach voyerism nude beach voyerism

description(in my limited but not non-existant experience with nude beaches, this is about as much magnification as you really want.)

nude beach nude beach

the parasail I was hanging from the parasail I was hanging from

the parasail the parasail

view to the south view to the south

blurry shot of a golf course maintenance guy blurry shot of a golf course maintenance guy

my feet my feet

cliffs cliffs

tourists tourists

another parasailer another parasailer

cliffs cliffs

view to the north view to the north

beach beach

gliderport gliderport

tourists tourists

tourists tourists

ridge ridge

beach beach

more of the parasail more of the parasail

more of the parasail more of the parasail

a hang glider coming toward us a hang glider coming toward us

cliffs cliffs

beach beach

point point

gliderpoint gliderpoint

myself and my myself and my "instructor", Tad

description(commercial rides really don't fit into the rules, so somehow they manage to work it such that people take "lessons". He was a really cool guy, though, and when out in the clear he let me take the controls a fair amount.

launching launching

or not or not

more parasailers more parasailers

parasailers parasailers

John's pilot and John John's pilot and John

John's pilot and John John's pilot and John