Loved the pictures!

This is a comment to Jason's last post.  I couldn't add a comment to his post for some reason.
Loved the pictures!  Would love to see more pictures and here more about the Australian runs.

Maybe we should see how many interesting animals we can see on our runs.  So far we have a rattle snake, baby buffalo and now a humpback whale. I will be running this weekend at Bear Lake and hopefully I will see something interesting to add to our animal list. The hills at Bear Lake should be perfect training for the Park City marathon.  If we can run at Bear Lake West, Park City should be snap.

Running Down Under

Greeting to all my fellow runners from Australia!
It is a little weird how my work occasionally sends me to far away lands to sit by a computer and trade stocks and things. Nonetheless I am rather pleased to have been sent to the southern hemisphere for a three and a half week work trip. Since I don't really know many people here I have had quite a bit of time to run and it has been splendid. Sydney is a pretty city and I have had some spectacular runs already.

Last Saturday I went on a 10ish mile run with my friend Rob. We ran around the coastal trails of a peninsula on the southern part of Sydney. Part of the run goes along some cliffs that fall roughly 50-100 feet into the Tasman Sea. I am not sure why they call parts of the ocean that are surrounded by land on approximately 1.5 sides "seas" but they do. For those of you that are a little fuzzy on your ninth grade geography, the Tasman Sea is just part of the Pacific Ocean. As we were running along these cliffs we looked out into the deep blue yonder and saw some splashing. The splashing was about one quarter of a mile from the cliffs and it was caused by the giant tail of a humpback whale! It was quite a fantastic surprise to see a large whale in the middle of a run I would say. I did see a baby buffalo while running along the Farmington trail about 3 weeks ago which was pretty gnar as well, but I think a wild migrating whale may top the list.

Right next to my apartment is a nice park that has some very nice running trails on it. The trails go from my apartment up to the edge of the Sydney Harbor where you get some great views of the Opera House and the main bridge in Sydney. I ran around there last night and then ran up to the actual Opera House to get a better view. Tonight I decided to take my camera with me on my short run and try and capture some of the views.
Hope you enjoy them.
The last picture was taken with the help of a photographer I met there from Germany. He let me borrow his tripod and gave me some tips on decreasing the shutter speed to get more light in the photos as well. All in all I would say it was a nice evening run!

Jason