tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119034212012-02-16T17:14:31.985-08:00The Goings on at Heceta Beach, from the view of Whales Watch Vacation Rental.Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-6457251214762466552011-09-20T16:53:00.000-07:002011-09-20T16:53:18.238-07:00

We love wet noses, sandy paws, and wagging tails. At Whales Watch Vacation Rentals, we understand that it just doesn't feel right to leave your 4-legged family member behind. Fortunately, you don't need to worry about pet sitters or kennels when you vacation at one of our homes. We're proud to offer the largest selection of Pet Friendly vacation rentals at Heceta Beach. See our latest Review

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Another update to our float finds..... On Tuesday April 13th, we had another westerly storm, and Dorene, who missed the Thursday April 8th finds, wanted to go out. So up we got at 5:30am and along with neighbor Debby we're out on the beach at 6:00. Debby didn't have as much time to walk so she decided to go North - so Dorene and I went South. We were about half way to the Jetty when, Debby

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On April 8th, I was rudely awakened by our new puppy Renfro at 6:15am (maybe it was because he wanted to celebrate his 7th Month birthday). Anyway, he dragged me out of bed 45 minutes to an hour earlier than normal. Well once I was up - I thought to myself we've had a westerly wind all night, I should look at the beach. It was just barely light, but when I glanced out I realized that every inch

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Well most of you know we had high wind & surf warnings up today! I found my glass float a week ago Thursday in pouring wind & rain. We had 2 nice days this week but in between those, we'd continued to have storms, and I kept calling Benny & Debby reporting large plastic float sightings, and Benny kept going out on the beach to retrieve them. Half of those are in my yard, and the rest in

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Well I hate to do this but I woke up to snow on the ground in Florence this morning. I wasn't going to be able to leave until around 5:30pm tonight, and I am not a snow & Ice driver. I somehow get the feeling that this wild March storm is Vern's way of telling us not to make a fuss over him. We've had churning burning surf for 2 days now, last night Bob and I came home just before dark and

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-89203313359493372312010-03-25T22:06:00.000-07:002010-03-25T22:07:10.188-07:00

I've been hunting for Floats since 1990. I found my first softball sized one in March/April of 1990. In January/February 97, I found a baseball sized one. In March 2002 I found my third baseball sized float in a tide pool of the blue jelly fish velella velella. Well around 5pm today, I was standing in my living room talking on the phone, looking out my windows, and I saw it...something round

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-48113831427055109252007-06-11T21:13:00.000-07:002007-06-11T21:16:10.387-07:00

Our weather has been less than perfect this year, but like always the Bald Eagles & Osprey arrived back in April, however it's June 11, and this is the first Jelly Fish we've seen:See past links at:http://whaleswatch.blogspot.com/2006/04/whales-osprey-jelly-fish-arrive.htmlI came home at about 6pm and the beach was covered with them, must have something to do with the cooler weather we've had

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Sitting here at at 10:00am Sunday morning when I notice this funnel cloud forming over the ocean. In the 12 years I've lived here I've never seen this happen, so I snapped a series of photos, all the way from when it formed, as it came across the beach and over my neighbors houses just slightly North of me In the gated community of Kla-ha-nee. I don't think it did any damage, and my wind gague

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It's been an unusual Spring. Usually it quits showering around the last 2 weekends in May. It's showed no sign of slowing this year, and the long time locals are saying they remember summers when it never stopped. UGH....... I can deal with the rain, as we all know it keeps "Oregon Green" but we're starting to look like Seattle, Grey overcast everyday, and I know the lack of sun is starting to

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1147237027393441572006-05-09T21:34:00.000-07:002006-05-09T21:57:07.406-07:00

For 3 days I've been watching a sea lion pup on the beach. On Sunday morning I looked up as there was a large group of people gathered around something and I realized there was a sea lion pup on the beach. For those of you that don't know, mother sea lions will leave their pups on shore for up to 24 hours, so that they can continue to feed and their pups can rest... Unfortunately this is a

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1144603101877157752006-04-09T10:15:00.000-07:002006-04-09T10:18:21.876-07:00

Saw my first Whales in several months on March 26th, Several days before I started seeing Osprey fishing and picking sea grass off the beach to build nests. Yesterday afternoon, went out for awhile and when I came back the beach was covered with blue jelly fish. Looks like Spring has officially arrived, even though the weather still feels rainy and winterlike.

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1139031975455891632006-02-03T21:39:00.000-08:002006-04-09T10:13:55.520-07:00

After 20 inches of rain in January... Which is double our annual rainfall, and after only having 3 inches of rain last year, a bunch of us our feeling moldy and damp... They promise us clearing next week, but only after the strongest storm of the season....This is after the one that beat us to death last weekend, and the one in December in which it moved our Pressure treated 60lb picnic bench

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1136231297298010142006-01-02T11:48:00.000-08:002006-02-03T18:09:05.253-08:00

thru a waveLeslie

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Being WavedLeslie

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Up a WaveLeslie

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sidewaysLeslie

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Over a waveLeslie

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1136231218341851962006-01-02T11:46:00.004-08:002006-01-02T11:46:58.340-08:00

serious waves....Leslie

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Side view of the whole boatLeslie

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More Waves.....Leslie

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Up a waveLeslie

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and they ride it outLeslie

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Made it...Leslie

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Another Wave

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Going thru a Wave

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1136231025712593152006-01-02T11:43:00.000-08:002006-06-15T21:20:24.073-07:00

Coast Guard practicing in Surf

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1136230787269806822006-01-02T11:39:00.000-08:002006-01-02T11:39:53.126-08:00

It's a gorgeous sunny day here at Heceta Beach. We caught a weather break, we weren't supposed to get. While we're still having extremely high surf it appears the Coast Guard decided to take advantage of the clear day and large waves to do some practice boating. Having a front row seat I snapped a series of shots.Leslie

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1135973908790626882005-12-30T12:15:00.000-08:002005-12-30T12:21:33.553-08:00

We had 70mph winds lastnight, the power went off for a couple of hours. There are still a record number of warnings up from the National Weather Service.Currently we still have a High Surf Warning, a High Wind Warning, A Flood Warning, a Gale Warning and the Siuslaw river has now flooded 2 sections of Hwy 126. It's currently closed at Cushman and Tiernan. Note: it is currently flooding during

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1135721098982092872005-12-27T13:56:00.000-08:002005-12-27T14:04:58.996-08:00

This could be a record, 3 alerts from the National Weather Service:FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON Issue Time: 1:15PM PST, Tuesday Dec 27, 2005Valid Until: 11:00AM PST, Wednesday Dec 28, 2005* Prolonged Moderate Rainfall Has Fallen Over Western Oregon During The Past Several Days And Has Resulted In Elevated River And Stream Levels. A Very Moist Southwest

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1135631708499601612005-12-26T13:15:00.000-08:002005-12-26T15:10:08.860-08:00

The New Tsunami Siren for the Heceta Beach Area. Located on 3rd Ave it seems to Alert the Neighborhood quite well, according to my neighbors. However it was reported that if you were inside running some kind of appliance vaccum cleaner or hair dryer you couldn't hear it. The City will be working on this.....From the City's Website:Emergency Preparedness Officials will be conducting a TEST of the

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1129302731245964412005-10-14T08:11:00.000-07:002005-10-14T08:12:11.246-07:00

Our first High Wind Warning of the year:ALERT 1 - Non Precipitation AdvisoryHIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 AM PDT SATURDAY FOR THE COASTAL HEADLANDS AND NEAR SHORE COMMUNITIES OF THE NORTH AND CENTRAL OREGON COASTIssue Time: 7:57AM PDT, Friday Oct 14, 2005Valid Until: 4:00PM PDT, Friday Oct 14, 2005Back to summaryHIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 AM

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1128351768978363692005-10-03T08:02:00.000-07:002005-10-14T08:10:25.413-07:00

a Stormy morningLeslie

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A rather Amazing 6 inch long tiger striped slug. Found crawling up the exterior of Whales WatchLeslie

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a stunning foggy sunset.Leslie

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Here's a cool new thing in Florence. You can take rides along the coast in this historical aircraft, very cool!. I haven't done it yet, but it's now on my list of things to do. Here are the photos, I took earlier this week.http://whaleswatch.com/images/stearman/index.htmand here's the site to book your adventure:http://www.aerolegends.com/

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1124248890142391182005-08-16T20:18:00.000-07:002005-08-16T20:21:30.153-07:00

Fog - For the last 10 days anyone checking my webcam has probably seen a fuzzy white blur. We've had occasional sunny spots, and I've seen the ocean a few times. But due to the hot temperatures inland, Heceta Beach has predominantly been sitting in the fog. However 4 blocks inland has been sunny, such is life on the Oregon coast in the summer. Just wanted everyone to know that the webcam

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1123167667549986192005-08-04T08:00:00.000-07:002005-08-04T08:08:54.620-07:00

Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset VisibleTh 4 Low 6:51 AM -0.8 6:08 AM Rise 5:22 AM 1 4 High 1:26 PM 5.7 8:36 PM Set 8:57 PM 4 Low 6:40 PM 2.7F 5 High 12:23 AM 7.1 6:09 AM Rise 6:27 AM 0 5 Low 7:24 AM -0.8

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Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset VisibleTu 12 High 3:54 AM 5.6 5:45 AM Rise 11:47 AM 24 12 Low 10:34 AM 0.4 8:59 PM 12 High 5:16 PM 6.0 12 Low 11:22 PM 2.3W 13 High 4:48 AM 5.1 5:46 AM Set 12:08 AM 33 13 Low

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1120522305133357752005-07-04T17:08:00.000-07:002005-07-04T17:11:45.136-07:00

From a Coast Guard Press ReleaseFlorence, OR - The Coast Guard suspended the search for a 15-year-old boy who was last seen in the surf Tuesday, north of the Siuslaw River Jetty near Harbor Vista Park in Florence, Ore.The search for Ian Foster, which began at about 2 p.m., Tuesday was called off at 8 p.m.Two HH-65 Dolphin helicopters from Air Station North Bend, Ore., two 47-foot Motor Life Boats

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1120016064668121302005-06-28T20:03:00.000-07:002005-06-28T20:34:24.673-07:00

I came home this evening to a coast guard helicopter circling, and a Coast guard boat going up and down the coast quite close in, I assumed like so many nights that they were out doing a drill. Then I saw all the emergency vehicles driving up and down the beach and realized that this was no dril, it was a real rescue situation. My neighbors called me to ask if I'd heard what was going on and I

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1119587269938403272005-06-23T21:24:00.000-07:002005-06-23T21:27:49.943-07:00

Tides for Siuslaw River Entrance startingwith June 23, 2005. Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset VisibleTh 23 High 12:42 AM 8.4 5:34 AM Set 6:51 AM 99 23 Low 7:59 AM -2.4 9:03 PM Rise 11:14 PM 23 High 2:41 PM 6.1 23 Low 7:45 PM 2.8F 24

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1119588191301210062005-06-21T21:28:00.000-07:002005-06-23T22:05:25.003-07:00

Well a bunch has gone on since the cancelled Tsunami warning. Our town said they messed up as a whole... Luckily it wasn't for real. Emergency lines were inundated with non-emergency calls, they never engaged the reverse 911 call system, so those of us waiting for that were idiots! City Hall, the Police, The Fire Department, and our radio station didn't have any lines open to call each other. All

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1118813829688044532005-06-14T22:09:00.000-07:002005-06-14T22:37:09.696-07:00

After living here for 11 years, I experienced my first serious Tsunami warning this evening. While I didn't panic, I also didn't hit the road for higher ground immediately like I probably should have. My first warning came when a relative from the Rogue Valley called. It was a good thing they called as I was sitting in front of my computer totally unaware of it. I went to the Tsunami warning

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1118155837512454882005-06-07T07:45:00.000-07:002005-06-07T07:50:37.516-07:00

Tides for Suislaw River Entrancestarting with June 7, 2005. Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset VisibleTu 7 High 12:15 AM 7.6 5:34 AM Rise 5:43 AM 0 7 Low 7:27 AM -1.3 8:57 PM Set 10:25 PM 7 High 2:10 PM 5.8 7 Low 7:10 PM 3.2W 8

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Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon/Low Time Feet Sunset VisibleTh 26 High 1:41 AM 8.2 5:40 AM Set 7:56 AM 9326 Low 8:59 AM -2.0 8:48 PM26 High 3:45 PM 6.026 Low 8:46 PM 3.1F 27 High 2:32 AM 7.9 5:39 AM Rise 12:38 AM 8727 Low 9:50 AM -1.7 8:48 PM Set 9:13 AM27 High 4:40 PM 6.027 Low 9:46 PM 3.2Sa 28 High 3:28 AM 7.3 5:39 AM Rise 1:19 AM 7828 Low 10:44 AM -1.3 8:

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1117156529068248532005-05-22T18:09:00.000-07:002005-05-26T18:17:35.333-07:00

My 1967 Imperial Sedan, won "Best Daily Driver" at the 13th annual, Rhody Days Show and Shine, in Florence Oregon. To me this is a much nicer award to win, then the ones given for the cars brought in on trailers. Everyone has their own opinions, but I have my cars to drive, not as display art. The weather for our Rhododendron Festival was mostly nice. Friday was great, Saturday it rained in the

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1116379310141101222005-05-17T18:17:00.000-07:002005-05-17T18:27:24.406-07:00

The Rhododendron Festival is a huge event for Florence, and a busy time here at Whales Watch. I'm guessing I won't be posting much between now and then, as I have a lot to get organized before our group arrives. We host a gathering of theImperial Club every year. Below I picked a shot from each year of our last 5 years of Imperial meets. The whole group parked at Whales Watch the first year,

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1115957232187471832005-05-12T21:01:00.000-07:002005-05-12T21:07:12.193-07:00

The webcam is pretty stable now, it took a little bit of messing with it, but I can now say it functions more often than not, you can always click on the sunset Icon in the left hand column, or find it here.Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset VisibleTh 12 High 2:29 AM 7.0 5:53 AM Set

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1115531162521580412005-05-07T22:41:00.000-07:002005-05-07T22:46:02.526-07:00

I'm watching this thing sealion/log in the surf. The tide is pushing it up.... I'm watching it because it really doesn't look like a log. I come home, my neighbor says "did you see another dead sealion has washed up?" I say, "dang, I was wishing that it was a log" neighbor says " no, it's a sealion"...So this morning people are out sitting on the dead sealion...... NOPE, it's a log! I feel

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1115423133395996542005-05-06T16:40:00.000-07:002005-05-06T16:45:33.400-07:00

Nature is cruel. I've lived here for 10 years, and we've had a few dead mammals wash up, but two in one year? Both in front of the house... Unbelievable!! The second one washed up this morning about 9am, you can see it from the webcam, although it just looks like a dark spot in the sand, lower left.....

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1115184628919886512005-05-03T21:43:00.000-07:002005-05-03T22:37:47.790-07:00

So much for Clamming.... For the first time since 2002, the entire Oregon coast is closed to clamming. A naturally occurring toxin, domoic acid has exceeded safe limits in razor clams, prompting state agriculture officials to close north coast beaches last Tuesday, followed by the closure of central coast beaches on Thursday. South coast beaches had already been shut down. Domoic acid is a

Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14749088924581235660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11903421.post-1114701306893494802005-04-28T08:14:00.000-07:002005-04-28T08:24:10.070-07:00

Fog and Wind have prevailed for most of the week, However we are having some fairly low tides, which gives the beach a whole new feel. I love exploring the parts of it you only see 8 or 9 times a year. It has attracted a large clamming group each morning. I don't know if they've been getting clams, but they're certainly getting their exercise. The following is the tide chart for the rest of

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The other lovely thing, is that the Sealion that washed up almost a month ago, is now very ripe, and the wind is blowing him right by. It's overwhelmingly obvious when you step outside. Not good, nature is most certainly not always pleasant. I just checked our archived wind gauge and the wind started picking up around 10am by 1pm it was blowing 20mph with gusts to 30mph, and the current average

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Ughhh... The sun finally came back out; unfortunately the wind came with it. So far we had unseasonably warm and dry weather over the winter, we have now had cold wet weather since spring finally arrived. Then the sun comes out, and we're having summer wind in April! Its currently blowing 25.8 mph, the sand is whipping down the beach about a foot off the ground, can you say sand blasted? On

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The sun finally came out yesterday afternoon.. We had an amazing sunset, and today it was nice all day. A bit on the cool side, but who cares, the sun was shining. I just checked the 7 day forecast and it's looking promising, we may finally get a break. However it is supposed to rain all weekend. 

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The Jelly fish are starting to dry up... which is a good thing, when they're laying all over the beach wet, the smell gets to be ..... well quite beachy! 

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It's that time of year again, when we get spring storms and the Jelly fish start washing up in droves. Supposedly this is the time of year to look for Japanese glass floats.....and several years ago that worked for me. I found a small float, right in the tide line floating among the jelly fish. That particular year, they washed up about 4 inches thick, as we had some very windy storms and rough

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Cape Perpetua Overlook All of these Cape Perpetua pictures were taken on March 12th, one of our last sunny weekends. Just a fantastic day... Almost 70 degrees, looks like we may already have had our summer......... :-(

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Cape Perpetua 

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Cape Creek Bridge 

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1968 Ford Wagon Heceta Head Light House WellI prefer to travel the coast in vintage style, if it's not in my 1967 Imperial Sedan, then it's my 1968 Wagon. Instead of those same old shots of the lighthouse, you then have something visually interesting to shoot in the foreground :-)

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Whoops, I forgot to mention that the Coast Guard was out circling in front of the house for a couple of hours today. They do go out and practice sometimes, but this didn't look like the usual practice session. As they circled up and down the beach, in a very organized pattern. I didn't ever see them find anything, and I did see two Coast Guard Cutters as well going North and South in the Ocean

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I know it's Oregon, but I was enjoying the unseasonable dryness. Now it's been raining for two weeks straight.. Oh well it makes for interesting sunsets and good photo's .A dead sea lion washed up last week, it's quite ripe now. However it's attracting lots of Bald Eagles, so there's always a plus side. I'm hoping I'll finally get a decent photo of a Bald Eagle.My past photos of un-recognizeable

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