Aloha!

These are my San Diego scrapbook pages.

Most of my time I'm doing my speech work or I'm diving.  In the remaining time, I'm into outdoor activities, especially all kinds of stuff you can do in/on the ocean, and skiing.  I get a kick out of riding my black Kawasaki Ninja over the coastal roads and doing trips in the area.  San Diego is beautiful itself, and Baja/Mexico, L.A., Vegas and a couple of awesome parks are more or less just around the corner.  Imagine going skiing in the morning and scuba diving in the ocean in the evening!  What a cool place.

I like music and visual arts and, on a less sober note, am a member of the Kentucky Bourbon Circle.

Below are some random photos that I took in the (extended) hood.  Most of the pics are linked to a bigger version that open up when you click on the ones you see here.

Enjoy!

             Holk

Boomer's Beach in the evening sun, just around the corner from La Jolla Cove.  Above the cliffs of Black's Beach in the background resides the University of California.	The Old Lighthouse at Point Loma, one of San Diego's landmarks.
The new lighthouse at Point Loma. During the first quarter of the year, you can watch the whales migrate past this cape.  The light-brown bands above the lighthouse are part of the Point Loma kelp beds which are one of the city's best dive sites.  So are the Coronado Islands that you can make out as a faint silhouette on the horizon in the waters of Mexico.	View of downtown overlooking the Shelter Island yacht harbor.

   Joshua Tree

These pics are from a trip to Joshua Tree Park with my buddy Kilian in August '99.  The mighty Ford Battleship drove us smoothly through the desert.
 

Smoothly most of the time, that is. We took off on a Friday night, drove through the Anza Borrego desert and got stuck in the sand at Yaqui Pass Camp.  No picknick.  It required a lot of shoveling, beer, and highly ungentlemanlike remarks towards the desert as well as sand in general to get out.  Well, all's well that ends well, here with bourbon.  Some psycho-pics from the meantime:

Joshua tree had some spectacular hiking and bouldering for us:
 

Vista point overlooking the Mojave desert.	Waking up after the night in Anza Borrego, a brushfire painted the sky orange and cast a strange, warm light on the Bigalow cacti.
The country-squires take a break.	Our campsite.	Mr. Coyote joins us for breakfast.

People
 

Meet my dive partner  Honey Ryder.

Holger Quast Henegouwenstraat 89 9000 Gent Belgium  holcus@_no_spam_quasts.de