April 29-30, 2024 Brookings, Oregon

 56 and mostly sunny.

On our way to Oregon we stopped at our favorite sea food restaurant in Crescent City- Crescent seafood. John had fire dusted calamari and I had bang bang prawns to start with.  Then John  had a scallop sandwich and we ordered crab cakes and cioppino for dinner tonight. Someone put a scarf on the mermaid on the pier. 

Crescent city marina. Crescent City light house. It is on an island and you can only go out there at low tide. 

We are camped at Harris Beach State Park in Brookings, Oregon now. Beautiful spot, except that the highway is right behind us, and the lumber mill across the is running a loud load of something. We took a lovely walk in the beach. 

Escallonia hedges and rhododendrons in the campground, quaking grass, wild radish, blue by the wind sailors are washed up on the beach, and wild calla lilies.  Harris Beach.

Wild radish flowers and teasel seed pods. Oyster catcher, sea gull, live teasel, wild carrots, calla lily and black vetch. 

Sunset on the beach tonight. 

High of 56, mostly sunny and windy. John on the trail to the south beach. Waves and seagulls on south beach.

John walking on south beach. Sea star. 

Cool waves. View heading back to the north beach.

John overcoming beach obstacles on the beach. Canada geese on the beach.

Canada geese and braided channels in Harris Creek. The waves were pretty big today. 

John on north beach. Wild radishes on the trail back.

Red hot pokers. I climbed up to the beach overlook for sunset. 

Another view from the beach overlook. 

April 27, 2024 Klamath, California

 58, cloudy and some light sprinkles. 

Warning. Bigfoots! Butter cup, clover and lupine. We hiked to Trillium falls today. A beautiful hike through old growth redwoods and a lovely waterfall. . 

Mossy rocks at the bottom of the falls. Mossy trees, we are back in rainforest.  

Looking back at Trillium falls under a mossy tree branch. Redwood roots on a fallen tree.

Skunk cabbage.  Grass seeds, wood sorrel, ferns unfurling, a row of trilliums, starflower, and pacific bleeding hearts. 

John with a knobby redwood. The coastal redwoods are the tallest trees in the world. 

John standing on a redwood trunk, that has fallen at right angles with another fallen trunk and has a bowl of ferns in-between. Redwoods on the trail. 

Davidson Creek. Fairy bells, bleeding hearts, spring beauty, salmon berry, pacific black snake root, lily of the valley, red elderberry and three cornered garlic.

Curvy sitka spruce.  Fern canyon. The steep walls are covered with ferns. 

John in Fern Canyon. Part of Jurassic park was filmed here. 

A Tesla crossing one of 4 stream crossings. I am surprised it did not short it out. Elk at Gold Beach. 

We are in tsunami zone here.  Gold beach waves. 

Gold beach and sunset.