Cannon Beach - Oregon Coast

Double Vision - Cannon Beach

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Cannon Beach is another area along the Oregon coast that is both a beach and a town. Very nice town with interesting shops and lots of art galleries. These "haystack" rocks are just magnificent as they stand out in the open sand. My big adventure here other than just seeing this beautiful beach was getting out of bed at 6:00 in the morning at the motel as I was sicker than a dog with a raging cold. So I go out on this beach (the morning before the above shot) with my knee high rubber boots on and everything is sort of fine until one wave softly rolls in and just tips over the rim of my boots filling them up with water. Back at the parking lot several people got to watch me pour out my boots with numb hands and toes.

I got to hike around in Ecola State Park just north of here. There is definitely no drought going on here as the forest was sloppily wet.

Realto Beach - Washington Coast

Realto Beach was interesting as it's very stark and raw. There is the "boneyard" of huge, dead, bare redwood trees that have washed up and are lining this beach that you have to crawl over to get to the water. I wish I had more time here with more drama in the sky.

I stayed in the town of Forks which was close by and the sign on the motel I stayed at said "Home of Twilight" and all the restaurants and stores had signs saying "Welcome Twilighters". There was also a little shop called Dazzled by Twilight and looked like a Goth style clothes shop. I asked a busboy at a restaurant what was all this Twilight stuff was and was told that a Teen/Romance/Vampire movie was filmed here. Actually he said just a few scenes were actually filmed here but the story was based in Forks with the majority of filming done in Oregon.

Jurassic - Olympic National Forest - Washington

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I was on my way to Sol Duc Falls which ended up being closed due to snow so I continued on to Crescent Lake as there was the Marymere Falls. I walked the trail and found the falls but I don't know if it's global warming or if I did not hike far and long enough or what, but there were so many downed trees that it was very hard to find a part of the forest that was pristine, as was the case when I got to the falls. The falls themselves were nice but they were so junked up with downed trees at the base that it was just not attractive. I took a few shots but they're not worth posting. The night before I was doing research on the Sol Duc Falls which are beautiful and found out recently there was a huge tree that fell across and is straddling the creek at the base of those and ruins the scene.

It certainly is a small world as after I finished shooting the above photo I got back on the trail from the falls and three women were on the trail coming toward me. Now mind you, I'm in the remote northwest corner of Washington in the middle of a forest and as these women get close enough for me to see their faces, one of them is Capri Porter !!! (some of you know her). Absolutely crazy. She's doing very well and says hi to everyone.

Eleven photos total uploaded to website

Until my next photo trip.................Be Good.