Looking at my shot yesterday a couple of people noted that the ground under the bluff at Dungeness Recreation Area didn’t look all that solid. Too right! So you can imagine my surprise a day or two later when we noticed the people shown above staging an intimate little photo shoot below the bluff, not far from yesterday’s shot.
This is not an accessible area. You can rappel down the sandy cliff or walk back along the beach from Dungeness Spit. However it’s accessed this is not a good place to perch and I’m sure that the area manager would be plenty upset.
Here’s a longer perspective of this spot taken a couple of years ago. You may notice a speck of bird — that’s an eagle. This spot is favored by birds, mostly seagulls. So even if it were a sensible place for taking pictures it wouldn’t rank high in my book for somewhere to lie down. Notice all the white specks in the shot up above? They’re not feathers.
I sometimes take a calculate risk myself to get a good shot.
We all need to live dangerously and break a few rules every now and then. I hope their photos came out nicely.
You definitely wouldn’t see me there. I’ll leave the living dangerously for someone else. 🙂
I can understand taking chances – but that is just crazy. Makes me wonder how she got that far in the clean dress.
Somehow rappelling down a cliff- which I love- would not be something I’d want to do when it’s covered in bird droppings.
I have taken some dumb photographs, but maybe this one would not be worth it.
i can imagine your outrage.
people can be so stupid…
I’m imagining this is a professional photo shoot. At least she is wearing white, so any droppings that get on her clothes might be less visible.
Isn’t there an old adage about “making your own bed and having to lie in it?” I think I’d leave it for the birds.