More from Brookings – ‘06

I’ve been working on various RV projects and haven’t gone on many trips around Brookings except a time or two. These are some of the pictures of those trips.

Standing on the cliff overlooking the beach on a cloudy day (looking South), the following pictures are all of Harris State Park, this is the south portion of the beach, then you can stumble your way through a tide pool section, until you get to the north portion:

The shear number of driftwood logs in this part of the country is amazing (looking North):

Looking South, note that this beach can be crowded, I just happened to come down on a day when everyone was off doing other stuff, I like how wide the beach is here:

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It wasn’t uncomfortable on this day. It was around 65F with no breese to speak of and a mild smell of salt in the air, long sleeve shirt weather. We haven’t had a good storm around here in a while so everything seemed to be sort of ‘waiting’ for another storm to come.

This portion of the trip was a tricky part since there isn’t a trail and you have to worry your way over and around slimy boulders and tide pools and such, did meet two or three other photographers that were getting close up shots of the tide pools, I don’t have the kind of equipment that would do a good job of that:

Then you run into this about midway through the difficult hike part, just think what it would be like during a storm:

These guys were hunkered down for no apparent reason, probably had their fill of shrimp and were just hanging out, waiting for a party:

A few days later and I took a bike tour near the RV park where I’m staying. The park is just south of the Chetco river, shown here:

Here’s the bridge that heads North to Brookings. It’s one mile away (I’m staying in Harbor):

There’s the ocean over there:

There’s all the boats and such in Harbor. There are several new buildings going up down there but the state says that the Harbor itself is in deep financial do-do:

I thought that this was a pretty good shot of the bridge. Taken from the northwest end of the bridge: