- Harbor seals.
I love the color blue.
Blue is my favorite color and you can't ask for many more beautiful shades of blue than the those found in the sky, ocean and river on this hike to the Nestucca River estuary near Pacific City, Oregon. Great hike!
Right center in this photograph, on the right bank of the Nestucca River is a small group of harbor seals lounging on the river shore (if you look closely you can see them).
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May 19th-21st. 2011 ~ My wife and I followed the sunshine down to the Oregon Coast for a few days of walking barefoot in the sand, a waterfalls hike, eagles, seals, a visit with kin, and some low budget investing at the Spirit Mountain casino at Grand Ronde, Oregon - for my wife.
On our way to the Oregon coast, we stopped to photograph the recently installed wind generators churning the blue sky south of Goldendale Washington. We drove the back road up from Hood River to Government Camp to check out the bright white spring snow on Mt. Hood. At the lodge on Mt. Hood the parking lots were overflowing with sun starved snow boarders, up for some sun and fun on the slopes of the ski area there.
On the Oregon coast, we took our favorite beach hike to the Nestucca River estuary where we always find seals, eagles, and an assortment of wildlife (not to mention uncrowded sandy beaches to walk). We took the short hike to Munson Creek Falls for the first time. It was a short easy walk to a coast waterfalls, which plummets 250 feet into a deep dark green forest canyon.
We also enjoyed an unhurried meal at one of those fast disappearing small town small cafes, where people are friendly and the food is great in Pacific City.
These are some of the photos from that three day trip.
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manywinters (12 months ago | reply)
glad you had such wonderful weather! Beautiful beach! Looks like a wonderful place to walk barefoot!
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oldmantravels (12 months ago | reply)
Smiling Vicky. Yes, walking barefoot is one of my primordial, enjoyable, "love to do it" activities in life (ranks right up there with sitting around a campfire or taking a long hot shower after a long hike). River sand bars are my favorite but a good ocean beach is hard to beat as well.
Heytherekid (7 months ago | reply)
I absolutely love all of your photography. Keep adventuring on sir. :)
oldmantravels (7 months ago | reply)
heytherekid - - Thanks! As long as nice folks out there in flickrland keep leaving nice comments and occasionally "faving" a photo or two of mine...I shall do so. OMT