Last month Trudy and I flew to San Francisco and drove north to Aracata, California to visit with her sister, Linda. For two glorious weeks we explored northern California and the shoreline of southern Oregon.
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Trudy and Linda experiencing a huge
spruce tree in the Cape Perpetua Scenic
Area south of Yachats, Oregon
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REDWOOD TREES are ginormous and are a 'you-will-always-remember-it' experience!!!
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Bob feeling very humbled next to a redwood in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park south of Orick, CA |
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Arcata Community Forest |
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Some ferns grow head high. |
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Elk in the Priairie Creek Redwoods State Park |
ROCKY SHORELINES of northern California and Oregon
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We spent two days enjoying the Bandon, Oregon area. I could have easily spent two months walking the sandy beaches, marveling at the rock sea stacks in the Pacific. |
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Humbolt Lagoon State Park |
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Unnamed beach at the mouth of the Redwood Creek, Orick
California
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Some beaches have huge collections of driftwood. This is one
of the more appealing 'houses' that will stand until the next
big storm.
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Probably because I am a native Floridian, I am fascinated by
rocks. This very cool large chunk of stone has beautiful veins
of quartz.
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The streaks of quarts mirrored the crashing waves of the Pacific. |
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Yep ... this is the same rock that I encountered on my return
walk back up the beach. This is a Western Gull with a red
streak on its thick yellow bill.
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This nearby sandy beach is speckled with billions of polished
stones in a myriad of colors ranging in size from tiny pebbles
to silver dollars.
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This little beauty was on a hard to find beach in the McVay
Rock State Recreation Area near Brooking, Oregon.
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McVay had the most amazing diversity of
seaweed along the shoreline!
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At the beach adjacent to Stone Lagoon, Humbolt Lagoon State
Park, waves splashed over ten feet high over the rocks.
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This is the first of 5 images showing a wave surging up a
narrow channel in the rocky shoreline at Cape Perpetua.
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2 of 5 series |
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5 of 5 series |
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A spray of white foam exited through 'Spouting Horn', 'a blow
hole in the rocks at Cape Perpetua.
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Driftwood formation at McVay Beach. |
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We visited Jesse, Linda's son at Slide Ranch, near the Muir
Woods National Monument. I call this 'Seal Rock', viewed
from the Muir Beach Overlook, just north of San Francisco.
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Rocks smoothed by wave action, Slide Ranch. |
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This image, also at Slide Ranch is the last of my Rocky
shoreline series
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SANDY BEACHES are the most common in California, even along most of the northern California coastline.
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Early morning view from the Moonstone County Park, between
Aracata and Trinidad, California.
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Agate Beach in the Patrick's Point State Park, north of Trinidad
California
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I returned several times to walk for miles along the sandy
beaches and dunes of Mad River Beach, a short drive from
Aracata, California.
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This Purple Sail Jellyfish is closely related to the Portuguese
man of war but has no stinging tentacles. Samoa Dunes
Recreation Area, Aracta, California.
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Dungeness crab shell |
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Morning sun over high dunes at Mad River Beach. |
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Gold Beach, Oregon |
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The last night of our Oregon road trip was spent at Gold Beach,
Oregon. We boarded a jet in San Francisco for the flight back to
Tallahassee the next day.
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Love this series, Bob!
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