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7.17.2016

499. Capri | Snapshots Part 3

Here are some more photos from Capri! For the past few years, I've only used the camera on my phone to take photos. I used to use an actual camera before I decided it was too heavy to carry around.. and the camera on my phone is just as good (maybe even better) and a LOT more convenient. Now I've decided I want to use an actual camera again and maybe start doing videos as well, for my next vacation. I've been inspired after watching a lot of travel vlogs. I also want to try using a drone. But that will be when I really get into it..since I can barely even keep up with regular blogging these days. I think video editing will take up a lot more time though (I used to hate that course back in school..but now I am interested again). I really like blogging but I usually don't have much to write about for each post. So I figured maybe I should focus more on good quality photography and videos.

The blues of the waters are so beautiful. I took this shot while waiting for my boat to leave Capri. It was extremely windy that morning. So windy that they cancelled the high speed boat and I had to take the larger ferry instead..the whole ordeal which I already talked about in a previous post. I tried to take a photo of the big waves but I guess you can't really tell from a still photo. I had to hold my phone so tightly while taking this in case it blew away lol.

Punta Tragara Review

Just napping in the middle of the street...

Casa Morgano Review

First night's dinner at Rendez-Vous, the restaurant of Grand Quisisana Hotel

Spaghetti Carbonara..I didn't like it that much. It was wayyy too filling.

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498. Recent Life

Finally, here is a long awaited "recent life" post! Very overdue as it contains photos over the past few months. Basically everything from since I came back from my trip to Italy until maybe 2 weeks ago (yes I'm still behind lol - I have to split up the posts due to too many photos). I'm not even done posting all my Italy posts either. Once I am caught up with everything I want to start blogging more often and doing shorter posts, so this blog can be more like a diary again. We'll see. By the way I only recently realized it's already the middle of July now and we're already more than halfway through 2016. I've been so busy with work these days I haven't had much time for other things like hobbies and side projects, and it makes the time go by so fast for me. I'm working on trying to better manage my time and finding a good balance. After July should be better for me though..anyways here are a random assortment of photos found on my phone:

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497. Canada Day Weekend!

For Canada Day weekend last week, I finally had the chance to visit one of the places (in Ontario) that I've been wanting to go for a few years already - Point Pelee. I found a photo of the boardwalk and thought it was so cool. I really love marshes and wetlands. Point Pelee is at the southernmost tip of mainland Canada. It was about a 4 hour drive away. We stayed for one night (at a cute B&B). On the first day we went to Wheatley Provincial Park for a campfire and our own fireworks. The second day we went to Point Pelee Pelee National Park for the boardwalk, walking trails and visiting "the tip". On the drive back we stopped at a farm for strawberry picking, stopped at another farm for cherries and cherry pie, stopped at a barn for an antique flea market, before coming back to Toronto. Fun weekend overall! I didn't take a lot of photos but here are some:

There are apparently all types of wildlife here but we only saw a lot of different birds, and dragonflies. I wanted to see a blue heron and a mink but unfortunately didn't.

I really enjoyed walking through this trail but there were sooo many insects and ticks around. I was constantly on the lookout for getting bitten (I get insect bites a lot!). It was a really nice walk though and on one end leads to the beach.