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Empire State Building
A work trip required a quick dash across the country to New York. I got into the city at the end of the day and checked in to my hotel for the evening. It turned out that my room was … Continue reading
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Tagged Empire State Building, Manhattan, New York City, night, panorama, photo, travel
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Cannon Beach
Cannon Beach was quite a way north of where we were staying in Oregon. However, it was on our route home so we stopped off to wander along the sands for a bit prior to hunting down some lunch. We … Continue reading
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Tagged cannon beach, landscape, oregon, photo, rocks, sand, sea, travel, vacation
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Beaches in the Mist
The moisture in the air along the Oregon coast can catch you out at times. On one drive south out of Yachats we rounded a bend in the road where we looked down from quite a height along the beaches … Continue reading
Bandon Beach
We did a bit of a road trip while in Oregon. I was interested in seeing Bandon Beach again – we went there about ten years before but I didn’t remember much about it – and it was a couple … Continue reading
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Tagged Bandon beach, oregon, photo, rocks, sand, stacks, travel
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My Friends the Eels
Nancy thinks I am nuts (probably for many reasons) but one of them is because I find eels fascinating. Most aquariums seem to have some eels on display and I love to look at them. Very often they are pretty … Continue reading
Yaquina Head Lighthouse
Yaquina Head got two visits from us during our stay in Oregon. We were in Newport on one of our early days and headed up to see it. Shortly after paying to get in to the park, the rain started … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, lighthouse, Newport, oregon, photo, tidepools, travel, Yaquina head
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Oregon Bridges
The Pacific Coast Highway runs along the coast in Oregon and passes through some towns with big harbors. Rather than head inland around the harbors, the highway crosses the entrance to some of these harbors over bridges. The architecture of … Continue reading
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Tagged bridges, Newport, oregon, pacific coast highway, photo, travel, vacation, Waldport
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The Benefits of Lens Compression
The stormy waves coming ashore in Yachats were providing some great splashes as they broke on the shore. They would crash into the rocks and send spray high into the air. If you were further along the shore and looked … Continue reading
Thor’s Well
The stretch of coastline in Oregon that we visited had plenty to do. We had to scratch a few of the things we had thought about in order to do other things given the time available. One of the things … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Perpetua, ocean, oregon, pacific, photo, Thor’s Well, travel, Yachats
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Night Waves
After dinner one night in Yachats, I decided to go out and see what I could make of the waves crashing on the shore at night. A number of lights were trained on the shoreline from the local properties so … Continue reading