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Audio Signature Hobbit Beach, Oregon 2013

A quite peculiar sand pattern on the beach, almost like an audio recording of the waves sweeping back and forth across the sand.]]>

How Pebbles Are Made Yachats, Oregon 2013

A solid hunk of rock slowly becoming a beach of pebbles.

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Hobbit Beach #3 Hobbit Beach, Oregon 2013

A companion piece to the one from yesterday, I guess you could call yesterday’s the big island photo and this is the small island photo–at least the rocks in each photo are islands at certain tide levels. I’m not sure which of the two photos I like best; yesterday’s has the most interesting compositional arrangement but I really like the minimalist red “statement” this one makes.]]>

Hobbit Beach #2 Hobbit Beach, Oregon 2013

Yesterday I referred to the rainy weather at Hobbit Beach as being pleasant. To a large degree that was because I was wearing a warm jacket topped by a raincoat, along with a fleece hat, gloves, and waterproof boots. Had I been dressed like these two, barefoot in t-shirts and shorts, I might have had a different opinion of the weather. It was after all, quite wet and not quite 50 degrees. They seemed to be having a great time though; I guess I’m just getting old.]]>

Hobbit Beach #1 Hobbit Beach, Oregon 2013

A dark and rainy day on the Oregon Coast earlier this week. Probably only someone from an arid climate like we have in southwest Montana can call such a day a pleasant experience. That fact that it’s turned quite cold since we’ve been back (ten below zero here right now) makes a wet day on the beach seem even more appealing.

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High Tide Yachats, Oregon 2013

A tide pool about to get a recharge as the tide peaks.

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The Watcher Seal Rocks, Oregon 2013

I don’t know what this crow was watching for so intently out amidst the tide-pools, maybe one of those sneaker waves they tell you to look out for on the coast.]]>

The Crooners Newport, Oregon 2013

I called this photo the crooners just to be ironic, as California Sea Lions are anything but crooners in the Frank Sinatra sense. But then I saw one definition online that said in Scottish it means “to roar or bellow.” That would make these Scottish crooners I suppose.]]>

Double-Headed Oystercatcher Seal Rocks, Oregon 2013

A black oystercatcher (or two) and a couple of bodyguards.

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Big Crash Seal Rocks, Oregon 2013

One thing about being at the ocean, you can walk on a beach right next to a highway and think you are in the middle of nowhere, soundwise anyway, as the noise of the ocean drowns out anything else. At Seal Rocks this morning we didn’t even hear the sound of the car crash that closed Highway 101 for four hours. I guess some sounds do penetrate, as we did comment on all the sirens we heard.]]>