October 27, 2013 Lincoln City, Oregon

We moved 36 miles down the coast to Lincoln City.

The bus at Devil’s lake state park campground.  the D river runs from Devil’s Lake to the ocean. It is 128 feet at low tide and 56 feet long at high tide.

We are now hiking to Drift Creek falls. 3 miles round trip.

A small falls on the way. There is a 240 foot suspention bridge built in front of Drift Creek Falls, which is 75 feet high. John on the bridge, falls to the left.

Drift Creek Falls, pretty spectacular and the bridge.

Mossy trees. Another view of the falls. I think it was the only view before the bridge, you had to hike all the way around.

John hiking in moss draped trees. Vine maples turning in front of alder tree trunks. The vine maples which are a tree, not a vine  are the understory of the forest.

Sunset from the ridge at 1,600 feet on the way back, and sunset on the beach in Lincoln City.

shamrocks bejeweled with water droplets, orange mushrooms, inside of a basket of edible mushrooms some mushroom hunters we ran into had, mostly chanterelles, dewed plant and salal berries.