Where Are We?

On By cindy knokeIn Conservation, MY PHOTOGRAPHS, REVERIES, TRAVEL REVIEWS, Wild Life

Looking at the first six photos only,

no metadata peeks,

or google image seeks, please.

Where would you guess this is?

There are wild buffalo,

and vast empty spaces of nature conservatory land.

Now, with these photos, the answer is far more obvious!

We are off season in The Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. This is Catalina Island, the most visited of the islands and not a National Park,

but still replete with wild spaces and wild faces. There are about 150 buffalo roaming free on the island.

Off Season, we are mostly alone with the locals, and their four legged paddling companions.

Cheers to you from The Channel Islands~

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289 thoughts on “Where Are We?”

        1. I used to find WordPress so much easier to navigate. I lost a lot of followers as I could not find them independently and could only respond to them once they had left a comment or a like on my posts.

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  7. I thought of Poe’s “Never more said the crow”, but I had no idea. The buffalo made me think of certain areas of Canada. I had no idea about those “Channel islands”. (“Ours” are Jersey, Guernesey et al…)
    Enjoy the island…

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    2. Candia Dixon-Stuart

      Hi, Cindy. Just a little problem. I am receiving all your followers’ notifications not to my WordPress dashboard, but to my personal email candiads@gmail.com since the weekend. Do you know how we can prevent this? Thanks!

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      1. Ooops. Sorry Candia… I never meant to intrude… WP is changing stuff everyday… You might have clicked – unwillingly – on a button called, “send me updates on the comments” or something like that… Happened to me once…
        Try to do another reply to Cindy, there might me a “new” screen popping up with a number of buttons…
        The other solution would be to unfollow Cindy. Let a coupla days pass and then re-follow her taking great care to chose the right option.
        I hope this helps…
        Cheers
        Brian

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          1. Yikes Candia! I am so sorry this is happening to you. I would contact WP Happiness Engineers and tell them what is happening. There is no end to WP gremlins! You can also go to your notification settings on your dashboard. Find my blog and turn off all email notifications from my blog to you. Good luck and let me know what happens. Unfollowing me for awhile also sounds like a good idea

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  8. Hi Cindy, I happened to see your comment on Amy’s L-A post today and realized I haven’t been getting your emails of your posts! I have been to Catalina (years ago) and I wouldn’t have guessed Catalina until I saw the Casino in the iconic harbor of Avalon! Beautiful–hopefully I can correct why I’m not getting your posts 🙂

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    1. Yes. Ditto here. I saw your comment, realized I hadn’t been getting your posts, went to your blog, and saw WP unfollowed me from you. I refollowed. It seems to happen to blogs that get lots of interaction. I feel your pain დ

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  9. I would never have guessed the location those buffalo – had no idea they roamed in California! I was thinking they were in Canada or in the Montana area.

    And I had no idea there were Channel Islands off the California coast. Wow – learning a lot here today! 🙂

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  10. Anonymous

    What a fun post – and so many comments!
    You’re doing something very right, Cindy!
    I did NOT know there were buffalo on Catalina Island!
    Another reason to go! I also want to make it to the Channel Islands – I had a ticket last year but the boat was cancelled due to weather.

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    1. Thanks very much & happy you enjoyed! My daughter and I had a boat trip cancelled last year at The Channel Islands due to waves. When first you don’t succeed….. დ

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