Redfern Lake, B.C.

I went on a quad trip with friends to Redfern Lake and we hit the fall colors just about perfect. What beautiful country!

Brookings is one of my Favorites

Then we spent a few days in Brookings, OR. In my opinion the Brookings area has some of the most beautiful coast line on the west coast, but you need to hike a little bit to see it.

You can't see any of this from your car. This is a few miles North of Brookings in Samuel S. Boardman St. Park.

These were taken in the area of Arch Rock.

And this is of course Arch Rock. I was stand on the arch on the left side when I took the picture above this one.

Here is the view from Cape Ferrelo.

And here is the sunset from Harris Beach State Park, one of our favorite campgrounds.

Cape Blanco

Between Coos Bay and Bookings we made a little detour to see the Cape Blanco lighthouse.

Actually we were looking for a campground there and we stumbled onto the lighthouse. It's normally cold and windy here. For us...no wind and 86 degrees.

This is the view inland from the cape. All of this wide open landscape and awesome scenery and they put the campground up in those thick trees where you can't see anything. We didn't stay overnight because we go the coast for scenery but the white spec in the middle of the picture is our trailer and where we parked was a great spot to eat lunch.

Connie and I took a tour of the lighthouse. That's not us up by the light cause I can't be in two places at once. I guess I could have used the GoPro remote again.

It's quite a lens they use. This is the only lighthouse in Oregon where you're able to go right up to the lens.

Hey, what do you know? They have two bulbs, in case one burns out.

This is the up stairway.

This is the down stairway. Yes, I'm just looking down on the same stairway.

The Oregon Coast

We spent a few day's on the Oregon coast week before last. The weather and scenery were great but we had no internet so this is an after the fact post.

This sunset is from Bastendorf  Beach near Coos Bay. We've stay there before. Thee's a county park, an RV park and an Oregon State park all with in a mile of each other.

The GoPro comes in handy with it's wireless controls for a little extra perspective.

If you're ever in the neighborhood, be sure to stop at Shore Acres State Park. There are these beautiful gardens right on the ocean.

They were build by some wealthy lumber man in the early 1900s and ended up with the State.

You would never expect to see this here and the first time we went we just stumbled onto it.

It's all maintained by volunteers now.

It's worth your time.

This is what it sits next to. Who would guess?

No Flowers Harmed

Since my visit to Table Mountain last week we have had about 5' of rain and a violent hail storm that reeked havoc on the flowers in our yard. But what about the flowers on the mountain?

Yesterday was a lull between storms so I went to find out. To my surprise, no flowers were harmed in the making of that storm.

As a mater of fact, some new flowers have come up in the mean time.

It was a bit overcast to get some of the shots I wanted but others were actually better.

I though the water falls would be a little fuller after all of the rain the day before, but not so much.

I beat the rain to Table Mountain

Tomorrow we are supposed to get lot of rain an it could rain for a week. So I though I better get over to Table Mountain today while the weather was nice.

I would say it paid off. What do you think?

I'm not sure what it will look like after the rain, but if this is the end of it I'm going to be satisfied.

City by the Bay

Connie and I spent a couple of days visiting Heidi and Jennifer in the bay area this week. I got some snaps that seem worth adding.

Sorry for the slight distortion on this stitched photo. The bridge deck at the bottom of the photo is actually much flatter.

Connie and Jennifer are on that ferry in the bay on their way to meet Heidi. I will catch up and then dinner in the city.

The next day we spent a few hours at Cronkhite beach. I had time to do a little hiking and what a beautiful day it was.

I hiked up to the the Battery Townsley built in 1938 to defend San Francisco.

Now that's what I call a gun!

If you ever get the chance to hike up and have a look it's well worth it.

The view from up there isn't half bad either. Just behond the rock point is the mouth of the San Francisco Bay and on the far left edge of the photo you can see the Golden Gate Bridge.