Brown pelican amid gulls

On our coastal trips back in the “old days,” the Big Guy used to fish exclusively on sandy beaches for ocean perch; but at some point he made the transition to fishing from rocky cliffs and points, where he mostly catches rockfish and cabezon. And while he’s busy with his rod and reel, I’m usually off wandering with my camera looking for interesting details, as I was on this particular day a couple of weeks ago.

There were small lizards scurrying around in the undergrowth almost everywhere we hiked, but I managed to get pictures of only these two: