Carmen's Chronicles: Watery Wednesday

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Watery Wednesday Meme, #174 - Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib, Patiala, Punjab, India - February 22, 2012

This Gudwara, which was once in the town of Lehal, is now part of
Patiala city. It was visited by Guru Tegh Bahadur on January 24, 1672
who sat under a banyan tree by the side of a pond and prayed for the
inhabitants of the village who had been suffering from a long and mysterious
illness. When they, amazingly recovered, people began to believe in the
healing properties of the water and a shrine was erected there. The
Gudwara was named Dukh Nivaran, which means "eradicator of suffering".

Devotees bathe in the pool in hopes of healing from illness.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Watery Wednesday #162 - A Pacifica Scene - November 16, 2011

I was out with two San Diego friends yesterday in my neighborhood and was

delighted with this lovely sunset.

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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Watery Wednesday #161 - Pacifica, CA - November 7, 2011

Pacifica. California is a beautiful spot on the northern California coast between
San Francisco and Half Moon Bay. It is a small community of only about
40,000 people, resplendant on a sunny day with beautiful ocean views,
great seafood, fishing, surfing and a Mediterranean climate. As often as not,
however, Pacifica is foggy and is famous for its annual Fog Fest.

The houses often seem to dip into the sea and, as a matter of fact, eroding
cliff sides have been a problem. Real estate has crumbled into the ocean,
causing great headaches for owners and city engineers.

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Watery Wednesday #161 -

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Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Watery Wednesay #160 - Another Sunset at Ocean Beach, San Francisco - November 1, 2011

Eighteen more days until my Korean Airlines flight arrives in Mumbai and
I'll have five months of new sunrises and sunsets. This sunset was taken
at San Francisco's Ocean Beach, one of my favorite drives and the route I,
most often, try to take to my Daly City home.

I am participating in Watery Wednesday - check out the

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Watery Wednesday #149 - Seagull Soaring Over Ocean Beach - October 25, 2011

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Pacifica, California Sunrise - July 27, 2011

I am participating in Watery Wednesday #150 and Wordless Wednesday.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Watery Wednesday #149 - My Area of Northern California - July 20, 2011

Well, I said farewell to my friend, Meaux, at 5:15AM at San Francisco International
Airport. It's been a busy two weeks and we had a wonderful time. We ate at a
variety of Asian restaurants - Thai, Sinaporean, Indian, Japananese and Chinese,
feasted on seafood and I did some cooking as well.

We managed to fit in a three day visit to my son and his wife in West Sacramento and
just spent a lot of time taking in the lovely scenery in my own area - when the summer
fog didn't interfere with visibility! This is the time of year when fog is heaviest. I really
don't mind it much - after all, that's San Francisco - except when I'm driving!

I took this picture of the Pacific and the pier in Pacifica on a wonderfully sunny day.
The location is less than five miles from my home and my son fishes from this pier, on
occasion.

About 8AM, my phone rang and I was delighted to hear the voice of my dear friend,

Werner Bernhard, a forensic toxicologist at the Legal Institute of Medicine in Bern,

Switzerland. He was calling to tell me he will be attending the meeting of the

International Association of Forensic Toxicologists in San Francisco the end of

September here in San Francisco and wanted to know if he could stay a few days with

me afterwards! How wonderful! I first met Werner in 1995 at another meeting here,

showed him about the city during his stay after and we have become dear friends. I've

visited his home in Switzerland twice, his son has spent a month two different summers

here and become a friend of my son, Jeremy, and Jeremy has, subsequently, been a

guest of the Bernhards in Switzerland twice for two lengthy stays. It is just amazing how

friendships develop and prosper!

I am participating in that wonderful meme, Watery Wednesday #149 -

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Watery Wednesday, #146 , Waiting For The Waves, San Francisco, Ocean Beach, June 29, 2011

No matter how gloomy and overcast the San Francisco day, even as afternoon
fog encroaches, determined surfers, clad in wet suits, brave the 55 degree
temperatures in hopes of momentary thrills on whatever waves break the
surface.

While twenty miles south, in Half Moon Bay, a location known as "the Maverick's"
is world renowned for its periodic waves from 25 to 80 feet high. In recent years,
two famous Hawaiian "big wave" surfers, Mark Foo, on December 23, 1994, and
Sion Milosky, on March 16m 2011 have died at this area
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location) ) where the break of the waves
is caused by an unusually-shaped underwater rock formation.

Ocean Beach waves never reach collosal proportions.