This is the final installment of my travelogue, for on the way back home from Australia, we had been invited to speak at the Annual Conference of the California Association of Neonatologists, now called ‘Cool Topics’.

This gave me a chance to photograph some California Birds, to visit some of my old haunts, and most importantly to briefly see some of my old friends from my time there.

Brown Pelican

Snowy Egret and Pacific Gull, both eyeing a tasty slug

Spotted Sandpiper

And finally as a poetic reference to the end of the trip a photo of a Whimbrel during a sunset walk along the beach at La Jolla.

Whimbrel, Sunset, La Jolla beach