I woke up at 6am to see the “famous” Dory Fleet put into the sea (Pacific City has no harbor, and its fishing fleet of flat-bottomed dories puts in from car-towed trailers on the beach), but a peek out our window showed no boats at all, so I went back to bed.
Haystack Rock and Cape Kiwanda
(again, this is a long post with a lot of photos – be warned!)
Sarah & I woke up early, had a quick breakfast, said our goodbyes, and were on the road at 8:30, heading west toward Tillamook. The drive was only about 90 minutes, and was very pretty as well as traffic-free once we cleared the Portland metro area.
A tourist-trap for cheese addicts like myself
(warning, this is a lonnnnng post with many pictures!)
We woke up at 7:45am and watched the conclusion of the Tour de France (go Discovery!) and had a fantastic breakfast at Morning Glory, a recommendation from the good people at Chowhound, which was conveniently located a couple of doors down from our hotel (more (much more) on restaurants we ate at as time allows), checked out, and hit the road, continuing north on I-5.
This is the first of numerous posts I’ll write over the next week (or two or three 😉 about my recent trip up to Portland, Oregon, and back down the lovely Oregon coast. We loaded up the car, filled up the tank ($3.65/gal for 87 octane in SF), and hit the road at 8:30am. The…
I meant to post this before heading to Oregon for 10 days, but so it goes. I briefly swung by the Radio Road ponds in Redwood Shores on the way home from work on 19 July, and was glad I did. Dowitcher sp. Many avocet chicks were on the sandbars and next to the road…
Unlike most camping trips, we decided to do only one hike during our recent visit to Wright’s Lake, partly because we wanted to relax, and partly because our friends Deb & Terry were planning on 7 days of backpacking right after we finished camping, and they understandably didn’t want to start tired!
Since this is a long post with a lot of photos….
Sarah, Debey, Terry and I had a fantastic camping trip last week at Wright’s Lake, just west of the Desolation Wilderness near Lake Tahoe, California. Day 1: After a 3.5 hour hop, skip, and jump from San Francisco, across the Central Valley, and most of the way up toward the Sierra Crest, we turned off…
I swung by the Baylands on Wednesday evening, having not been there in a few weeks. It was a mild, but very windy day, which I suspect kept the bird numbers down a little. Good variety, but low counts. “Typical” Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) At the Duck Pond, among the flock of “Bicolored” Red-winged Blackbirds…
Sunday, 24 June 2007 Sarah’s mother, Diane, Sarah’s sister-in-law, Heather, and I hiked at Loma Alta OSP in Marin and found it to be a lovely little preserve (and a dog-friendly one, which Murphy, Heather’s black lab, quite appreciated!). Sarah, alas, was stuck in her jewelry-making class, practicing for an upcoming certification exam, and couldn’t…
I briefly birded Radio Road on my way home from work on Wednesday, and although it was very windy, the birding was pretty good. Anyone know what species of duckling this is? In the main (southern) pond were the most ducklings I have ever seen – there must have been well over 100 of…
