Sad Little Video, But Funny Never the Less!

This is a funny clip from a day on the water in Dana Point.  You've got to watch it to the end.  It's how you can lose four hundred and twenty bucks with a quick sweep of the hand.  It's not so funny from the stand point of the money lost, but from the reaction of the paddle boarder, you just got to laugh or you will cry.  Have a great weekend, if you are in Dana Point this weekend, look around for the GoPro in the harbor. It's still out there and we want the footage!

Another Shade of Blue with Ty Sawyer Gallery Showing!

A beautiful collection of Ty Sawyer's photographs are on exhibit at Lorimar's Tasting Room in downtown Temecula.  This is the first time Ty Sawyer's photos have appeared in a gallery showing.  If you aren't close by Temecula, please check out our website anothershadeofbluestore.com and browse through an assortment of gorgeous prints available on canvas.  Lorimar is open until 6:00 p.m. every evening.  Old Town Temecula has a wonderful collection of stores, restaurants and tasting rooms.  Temecula Wine Country is a wonderful destination for the weekend.  Don't forget to stop by Lorimar and check out the gallery.

Two Weeks of Australia, #2 — Cape Leveque, Western Oz

Two Weeks of Australia, #2

Cape Leveque

The first thing my guide (www.kimberleywild.com.au) says when she picks me up at, yep, 7am is, “looks like we might be trying to outrun some rain today.”

Great. But, at least I’m still in the dry part of my journey. You see there are two seasons in the Kimberly region of Western Australia: Wet and Dry. No shoulder season. Usually, or should I say, typically, you can’t travel anywhere during the Wet because the roads are underwater and the rivers rage with fierceness that would give you pause, and rain pours from the sky as if an aboriginal god tipped over a pitcher. Crocs, which are all over Western Australia, roam deep inland during the Wet. But, during the dry, which is when I’d traveled to the Kimberly, you’re lucky to see a cloud, and the closest you get to rain is perspiration dripping from your nose because of the heat. The blue of the sky is unlike that anywhere on Earth. That’s what I wanted. Light and sun generally work better for making travel images than rain.

So, with nary a drop of coffee in my blood, we thunder out of Broome in Land Rover to make the three hour, 220 km drive north to the tip of the Dampier Peninsula and see the red cliffs of Cape Leveque. Within a couple of miles, we left the sealed road and were kicking up a red, dusty rooster tail from the pindan. The pindan is the red dirt that’s everywhere in Western Australia. When you see these red dirt roads from the sky, they look like blood vessels winding through the outback. And, during the wet, the road we’re on becomes a river that, in fact, seems swollen with blood. But for now, it’s dry.

We pass great expanses of wattle trees and white barked ghost gums. It looks like a place you’d die in about 5 minutes from exposure and lack of sustenance, but the aboriginals see this land, and the flora and fauna that grow here, as a great bounty. There’s food somewhere in the red and green landscape, under the dust cloud, I just don’t know how to look. Every now and then, there’s an explosion of pink, as if the land has erupted in a sudden case of breast cancer awareness. Pink, frilly, bushy flowers, which the locals call bachelor buttons, ignite the open areas with their color.

After a couple of stops, we make it to Cape Leveque, wander down to the shore and the world changes from green and red to red, white and blue where the shore and sand meet. The water seems alive with blue, shimmery, clear, and where the horizon and the sea meet, there’s almost no discernable line: just blue on blue. The white sand leads up to sandstone cliffs that look like they’d burst into flames, they’re so red. The first of the cold front pushes clouds over the beach, and my guide tells me I only have 30-minutes, that I need  to catch a flight back to beat the cold front. Thirty-minutes!!! I can see shooting here for days, each change of the light luring me deeper into the landscape. So, I shoot like a crazed monkey. I run, literally, up and down the beach. Looking for any and every shot possible. Soon my guide drags me off the beach, enticed, but unfulfilled. There are no later flights. I’m already pushing my luck to get stuck, which I think would not be so bad as there’s a wilderness camp right on top of the cliffs (www.kooljaman.com.au/).

But, I just make the flight, dreams of the landscape washing through my head, filling it with red and blue visions.

Once in flight (www.kingleopoldair.com.au), I see the sense of urgency. As far down the horizon as I could see was a dark cloud, looking like a giant wave. So, to the east I see dark purple clouds, swelling with rain; to the west, the sky still shimmers with a mostly cloudless blue. But the buffeting and rodeo ride we’re having in the small plane tells me tomorrow will bring a change. 

Where I stayed: www.pinctadacablebeach.com.au — Great, modern rooms, close to famous Cable Beach where you can ride a camel at sunset and drive your car onto the sand to enjoy sunset from your fave 4WD.

About Cape Leveque: www.westernaustralia.com or www.tourism.wa.gov.au. — Lombadina, pearl farms, Beagle Bay Aboriginal Community (famous church decorated with pearl oysters), Buccaneer Archipelago (massive tidal flows).

Where I ate: www.kooljaman.com.au — I ate a massive lunch of fresh caught barramundi alfresco with a salad and rice at the Kooljaman Wilderness Resort, which, of course, piqued my desire to stay there for a few days and explore this landscape and Cape Leveque more with my camera.

About Australia: www.tourism.australia.com — Anything and everything important to know about what travelers call, “Oz.”

Behind the Scenes-Another Shade of Blue Crew: Working Away In The Office, Dreaming Of Walking Do...

Behind the Scenes-Another Shade of Blue Crew: Working Away In The Office, Dreaming Of Walking Do...: "Another Shade of Blue Crew here, working away at our desks and editing stations in our beautiful downtown Temecula offices. Right? Temecul..."

Back home

After a couple weeks shooting all over so cal. The crew is back in the studio and has begun Post production on episodes 5 and 6. Many thanks to Minelab USA, The Avalon Hotel, Dr Bill Bushing, the Wet Spot, Dive Catalina, Lorimar, Dr. Enrique Ferro, Body Glove, Imagine, Rainbow Sandals, ScubaGirls, Keds, JanSport, the Temecula Wine Community, Califorina Dreaming, and BluBlocker.

Final Cut X came out today!

Working Away In The Office, Dreaming Of Walking Down This Pier

Another Shade of Blue Crew here, working away at our desks and editing stations in our beautiful downtown Temecula offices. Right?  Temecula is pretty but I would rather be walking down this pier and having a picnic under the palapa at the end of the pier this afternoon.  The water is crystal clear and the sky is so blue.
We are pitching our show to a network in Australia today, I can't wait to go explore the land down under.  Ty tells me it's one of the prettiest places on earth.  Luckily for you, you can join us on our trip down under, by watching Another Shade of Blue-Australia when it comes to your television.  Enjoy your picture of the day, and remember everywhere we go the water is always Another Shade of Blue

Behind the Scenes-Another Shade of Blue Crew: Looking for a GoPro in a Haystack!

Behind the Scenes-Another Shade of Blue Crew: Looking for a GoPro in a Haystack!: " ]A continuing saga in regards to our shoot with Corran Addison and the 'ImagineSurf' ultra cool stand-up paddle board. Unfortunately f..."

Looking for a GoPro in a Haystack!

 

 

]A continuing saga in regards to our shoot with Corran Addison and the "ImagineSurf" ultra cool stand-up paddle board.  Unfortunately for Wright Productions our brand new GoPro HD 1080 camera accidentally got knocked into the ocean in a demonstration of how to properly paddle around Dana Point Harbor. Always the optimist, producer Jeannie, went down to the harbor with instructions from the crew as to exactly where our camera and paddle board footage might be relaxing on the ocean floor.  Two hours later, after a visit from the Harbor Patrol, the Ocean Institute director Rich Baker, Scuba Diving Services Martin Herrera and about seventy-five onlookers, wondering what the heck we were doing in the channel, we came up with nothing!  The elusive GoPro camera is still on the loose, good thing it's waterproof, maybe some day a snorkeler or diver will find it and give us a jingle.  Some how I doubt it.  Now we just have to smile and pay our Best Buy bill for our pretty plastic box that used to hold the GoPro.  Bummer in the summer!

Back In The Office-The Not So Fun Job!

Hi fans and friends of Another Shade of Blue, the production crew is back in the office, editing last weeks materials and working hard on getting the show distributed.  We have an agent working hard on worldwide distribution, which is great for all of our fans in Egypt, Australia, France, Asia, Belgium and Africa!  Scuba Diving and Adventure Travel bring us all together, one big happy family.  We are always looking for the adventures that bring a smile to our faces.  If you want to check out an episode please click on YouTube.  I think you will enjoy the show!