Oregon Coast and Lighthouses

It's hard for us to tell you how much we love this area of the country - although for you, it is likely "Enough, already! We get the message!" So we thought we'd do a little photo montage of the views and the lighthouses. We saw them all, and got photos of many. Unlike the Atlantic coast, these lights are typically two to four hundred feet above the water - making them visible for many miles, except on the foggy days.

Yaquina Head

Lewis and Clark in Seaside

               

Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach - one of three along the coast

The lighthouse at Cape Meares

This is a gigantic sitka spruce has the candelabra shape common along the coast. The arms have a circumference of 12 feet and extend out as much as 30 feet from the center. The base of the main trunk has a circumference of 50 feet - nearly 17 feet across.

Heceta Head

    Devil's Churn - a deep cut into the rocky coast                   

Rhododendrons in bloom

Near Cape Foulweather                               

                                 Near Newport on a foggy day

Near the mouth of the Columbia                        

There are so many spots we can't remember exactly where this was, but does it really matter???

Blue whale territory in Depoe Bay, a neat little fishing village

A puffin playing around at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport

The Newport Bridge over the entrance to Yaquina Bay

The mushrooms love it but after a few weeks we were turning into mushrooms too!
                                      











Thousands of seals and sealions on the beach near Florence.

Sand dunes country, a hundred mile strech of the central coast.

Another haystackof the coastline at Pacific City. This is the tallest of the three at over 300 feet.

Just somewhere along the way