Weekend Explorer- Jack LaLanne- Muscle Beach Workout, Santa MonicaWeekend Explorer2024-10-22 | Weekend Explorer- Jack LaLanne- Muscle Beach Workout, Santa MonicaPet whales on my “Kiss a Whale” tour. New tours soon. #weekendexplorer #graywhale #whale #bajaWeekendExplorer2023-08-07 | ...Young coyote wanders out of nature reserve. #weekendexplorer #coyote #coyotes #naturepreserveWeekendExplorer2023-08-06 | ...Rafting Adventure-Periyar Tiger Reserve #weekendexplorer #periyar #tiger #tigerreserve #keralaWeekendExplorer2023-08-05 | ...Summer, Leopard sharks in La Jolla. #lajolla #leopardshark #snorkeling #snorkelling #weekendexplorerWeekendExplorer2023-08-04 | ...Barbie’s Ken mascot of Black Canyon canoe trip. #weekendexplorer #blackcanyon #canoe #barbie #travelWeekendExplorer2023-08-02 | ...Hilarious time fishing! #houseboating #lakepowell #weekendexplorer #fishinglife #houseboat #fishingWeekendExplorer2023-08-01 | ...Water Canyon Natural Bridge #weekendexplorer #travel #naturalbridge #utah #hiking #zionWeekendExplorer2023-07-31 | ...Cliff jumping Black Canyon near Hoover Dam. #weekendexplorer #blackcanyon #hooverdam #cliffjumpingWeekendExplorer2023-07-29 | ...American Buffalo aka bison. #NorthRimGrandCanyon #weekendexplorer #buffalo #bison #grandcanyonWeekendExplorer2023-07-27 | ...Umauma Falls Zipline #weekendexplorer #travel #bigisland #bigislandhawaii #waterfalls #waterfallWeekendExplorer2023-07-25 | ...Wild turkeys take over the lawn! 🦃 #weekendexplorer #sequoia #wildturkey #wildturkeysWeekendExplorer2023-07-21 | ...Manatees off Sanibel Island. #weekendexplorer #travel #manatee #manatees #sanibel #sanibelislandWeekendExplorer2023-07-18 | ...Fellow hikers get in trouble in Death Valley. #weekendexplorer #deathvalley #deathvalleynationalparkWeekendExplorer2023-07-16 | ...La Familia Sagrada’s ethereal light. #weekendexplorer #barcelona #sagradafamilia #cathedral #spainWeekendExplorer2023-07-14 | ...Flight over Canyonlands National Park. #weekendexplorer #canyonlands #canyonlandsnationalparkWeekendExplorer2023-07-12 | ...Fun things on California’s Central Coast. #ostrich #seaotter #bigsur #weekendexplorer #waterfallWeekendExplorer2023-07-10 | ...July 4th in Del Mar, California. #weekendexplorer #delmar #july4th #fireworks #travel #visitsandiegoWeekendExplorer2023-07-07 | ...July 4th Boat Parade in San Diego! #weekendexplorer #travel #july4th #boat #boating #sandiegoWeekendExplorer2023-07-05 | ...Sailing in San Diego! ☀️⛵️ #weekendexplorer #sealion #dolphins #sandiego #missionbay #visitsandiegoWeekendExplorer2023-07-03 | ...Horseshoe Bend spectacular despite crowds. 😻#weekendexplorer #horseshoebend #pagearizona #roadtripWeekendExplorer2023-06-30 | ...Our boat used by gray whale as scratching post! 😳🐳#weekendexplorer #whale #graywhale #whalesWeekendExplorer2023-06-28 | ...Sand crashes aren’t as painful! Fun!! #weekendexplorer #coralpinksanddunes #desert #southernutahWeekendExplorer2023-06-26 | ...Nature’s Shower- Yosemite Falls! #weekendexplorer #waterfall #yosemitefalls #yosemite #waterfallsWeekendExplorer2023-06-24 | ...Dolphins highlight of our sailing trip🐬 #weekendexplorer #dolphin #dolphins #dolfin #sail #sailingWeekendExplorer2023-06-22 | ...Gray whales are gentle giants! 🐋 #weekendexplorer #whale #baja #graywhale #whales #bajacaliforniaWeekendExplorer2023-06-20 | ...Yosemite Falls in spring runoff. #weekendexplorer #yosemite #yosemitefalls #waterfall #californiaWeekendExplorer2023-06-19 | ...Moaning Caverns Spiral Tour #weekendexplorer #moaningcaverns #cave #caves #cavern #caving #cavernsWeekendExplorer2023-06-15 | ...Cue the camel! Filming Marco Polo segment for documentary 🐪 #weekendexplorer #camel #camelsWeekendExplorer2023-06-13 | ...Beach cliff trail with wildflowers and pelicans. #weekendexplorer #beach #beachlife #beachesWeekendExplorer2023-06-11 | ...Whitewater rafting Merced River right now! weekendexplorer #yosemite #whitewater #whitewaterraftingWeekendExplorer2023-06-09 | ...Bridalveil Falls in historic runoff. #weekendexplorer #yosemite #bridalveilfalls #waterfallWeekendExplorer2023-06-07 | ...Natural Bridges, wait for the happy dance!🕺🏻 #weekendexplorer #cavingWeekendExplorer2023-06-05 | ...Yosemite Falls in a historic year of precipitation! #weekendexplorer #yosemitefalls #yosemiteWeekendExplorer2023-06-04 | ...Speeding car close to endangered Gopher Tortoise! #weekendexplorer #tortoise #sanibel #sanibelislandWeekendExplorer2023-05-31 | ...Exciting airboat ride to see giant alligator 🐊 #weekendexplorer #alligator #alligators #evergladesWeekendExplorer2023-05-29 | ...Desert Big Horn Sheep in Anza Borrego State Park. #weekendexplorer #bighorn #bighornsheep #desertWeekendExplorer2023-05-27 | ...Sperm whale encounter 🐳 #whale #whales #spermwhale #spermwhales #whalesofinstagram #weekendexplorerWeekendExplorer2023-05-26 | ...Beautiful day of sailing in San Diego ⛵️ #weekendexplorer #sailing #sail #sailboat #visitsandiegoWeekendExplorer2023-05-24 | ...Gray Whales from the air shows their size! 😮🐋 #weekendexplorer #whale #graywhale #whalewatchingWeekendExplorer2023-05-22 | ...2nd gray whale throws head out to see us! 🐋😲 #weekendexplorerWeekendExplorer2023-05-20 | ...Be careful not step on sea turtles at Poipu Beach!WeekendExplorer2023-05-18 | Such an exciting close encounter with wildlife to see turtles on Poipu Beach, Kauai. People on cell phones or not paying attention come too close to these turtles frequently. So watch your step! ⠀⠀ #kauai #hawaii #hawaiilifestyle #hawaiistagram #hawaiilife #hawaiian #mauihawaii #poipu #poipukauai #poipubeachpark #poipubeach #gohawaii #visithawaii #islandlife #islandstyle #weekendexplorer #jeffreylehmann #tropical #turtle #turtles #turtlesofinstagram #turtle🐢Young California Sea Lion friend. 🥰WeekendExplorer2023-05-14 | I saw this guy while running on the beach by my house. He was snoozing on the beach and a couple stepped right over him thinking he was a log. I stopped and started redirecting people away from the sea lion. I wasn’t so worried about the people but someone with a dog would be trouble. Sure enough a woman with a dog started to approach. I asked her politely to keep a large distance. She told me as she approached that her dog, a pitbull, wouldn’t be a problem and she wanted a closer look. I insisted that she keep her distance. She started to repeat how her dog wasn’t a problem when the dog went crazy and she could barely restrain it even though they were still 45 feet/15 meters away. All this time people started stopping. There were at least 50 people about 25 feet/8 meters behind me. All the noise woke the sea lion. It was fine but I thought it might be stressed by my presence even though I was 30 ft/10 meters away. I am 6’6”/190cms after all. So, I got down on one knee to look not so large. The minute I did, the sea lion scurried over to me and put his head on my lap. I thought “Great! After I always tell people to keep there distance from wildlife, there are dozens of people taking pics of me with a sea lion in my lap.” When after a few minutes of calming down, the sea lion felt comfortable enough to roll up and go back to sleep. I carefully and slowly backed off but wanted a quick video of this experience. The sea lion saw I had moved away and the video above shows what happened. Del Mar is a Great White shark “nursery”. The largest on the West Coast and one of the largest in the world. They don’t attack humans but they attack sea lions with impunity. This young sea lion was most likely chased ashore and was waiting for the shark to leave. I watched over the sea lion until after dark. With people gone, I left him sleeping. He was gone the next morning.
#weekendexplorer #jeffreylehmann #sealion #sealions #sealion #sealionsunday #adventure #travel #ecotourism #sandiego #visitsandiego #visitcalifornia #socalliving #socallife #delmar #delmarbeach #delmardogbeach #delmarlifeyyc #delmarcalifornia #delmarlivingBe kind when you catch-and-release! ❤️WeekendExplorer2023-05-12 | A friend took this close to my house this week. If you’re not careful when you catch-and-release you can easily injure a marine animal so much that it won’t survive. You may remember my stingray release last week. Those kids were understandably afraid of getting stung and were going to “kick it back into the water” when I stopped them to help. See the happy ending if you haven’t already. Bay Rays have no stinger. So this bat ray could have been moved by gently lifting from the front. In California, bat rays are triangular while sting rays are circular. A large specimen like this is critical for maintaining a strong gene pool. Science has shown that many species are shrinking due to hunters taking the largest specimens. We need to enact laws to protect the smallest (to allow them to grow larger) and largest (for a strong gene pool) specimens from hunters. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #torreypines #torreypineshike #torreypinesstatebeach #torreypinesbeach #torreypinesstatepark #torreypinespark #sandiego #california #lajolla #visitlajolla #visitsandiego #visitca #weekendexplorer #jeffreylehmann #visitcalifornia #batray #batraysAmazing tree in a magical rainforest! 😻WeekendExplorer2023-05-09 | I hiked through this beautiful rainforest on the way to a dive spot near Lahaina, Maui.
⠀⠀ #maui #hawaii #hawaiilife #hawaiian #mauihawaii #lahaina #gohawaii #visithawaii #weekendexplorer #jeffreylehmann #tropical #rainforest #rainforests #jungle #hike #hiking #travel #travelingBeach cliff trail overrun by wildflowers!WeekendExplorer2023-05-07 | The wildflowers are going off in California right now! The desert blooms are over and the height of the California Poppy Reserve is past. Now wildflowers are blooming at higher elevations in the mountains above the deserts and on the coast. This is a short hike to an expansive view over sea bluffs near my house in San Diego.
#california #visitca #weekendexplorer #jeffreylehmann #spring #visitcalifornia #jeffreylehmann #visitcalifornia #travel #traveling #flower #flowers #wildflowers #wildflowerseasonCalifornian-official tall ship of California State 🤩WeekendExplorer2023-05-03 | This is a replica of an 1847 Revenue Cutter that patrolled the California coast enforcing federal law during the Gold Rush. The replica was made in 1984 at Spanish Landing in San Diego Bay for the 1984 LA Olympics. In June 2002, the San Diego Maritime Museum acquired it.
#sandiego #visitsandiego #visitca #weekendexplorer #jeffreylehmann #visitcalifornia #sail #sailing #sailboat #sailboats #sailboatsofinstagram #sandiegobay #pointloma #sail #sailing #boating #explorerkids #sdmaritime #sdmaritimemuseum #sandiegomaritimemuseum #tallship #tallshipsSaving a stingray from kids fishing.WeekendExplorer2023-05-01 | We landed at a restaurant dock to grab a bite when some teens caught a stingray. They were afraid to release it fearing they would get stung. They were about to try and kick it back into the water, when I asked them to wait. I got a plexiglass piece from my boat and was able to gently put the stingray back into the water. ⠀⠀⠀ #weekendexplorer #jeffreylehmann #adventure #travel #ecotourism #sandiego #visitsandiego #visitcalifornia #socalliving #socallife #socallifestyle #stingray #stingrays #stingrayfish #stingrayfishingTop Waterfalls, Road to Hana! 😍WeekendExplorer2023-04-28 | The Road to Hana is a beautiful 20 mile/32 km drive of mainly one lane bridges and roads past numerous spectacular waterfalls. The drive is 4 hours round trip plus stops. ⠀⠀ #maui #hawaii #hawaiilifestyle #hawaiistagram #hawaiilife #hawaiian #mauihawaii #wailea #hana #roadtohana #gohawaii #visithawaii #islandlife #islandstyle #weekendexplorer #jeffreylehmann #tropical #waterfall #waterfalls #waterfallphotography #travelAwesome canyon campsite with fireworks!💥😻⛺️ #desert #camping #fireworks #camp #weekendexplorerWeekendExplorer2023-04-25 | ...Way Off-the-Beaten-Path past Hana, Maui, Hawaii. 😱WeekendExplorer2023-04-18 | The Road to Hana is a beautiful 20 mile/32 km drive of mainly one lane bridges and roads past numerous spectacular waterfalls like this one. The drive is 4 hours round trip plus stops. 10 hours but totally different scenery if you drive all the way around the Haleakala volcano 🌋 ⠀⠀ #maui #hawaii #hawaiilifestyle #hawaiilife #hawaiian #mauihawaii #wailea #hana #roadtohana #gohawaii #visithawaii #islandlife #islandstyle #weekendexplorer #jeffreylehmann #tropical #haleakala #haleakalanationalpark ⠀