September 26-27,2015 Fort Stevens, Oregon

It was a beautiful sunny day in the mid 60’s. Perfect day for the beach. We walked around the point of the peninsula.

The sea grass was lovely, the sky was blue ,there were puffy clouds and a gentle breeze.  Pelicans in the sky.

Pelicans over the waves.  Beach grass, sand and blue sky.

 

We watched this ship come through the Columbia Bar, one of the most dangerous river/ocean crossings. They are required to have a river pilot to get through the shifting sand bars.  Water, mud and grass.

 

We drove the car right up onto the beach, had lunch and watched a kite surfer in front of Astoria.

  This cool camper was hand built. The owner used to work in a boat shop and made this himself.

 

Sea Urchins in a tide pool, barnacles, wave patterns, limpet, pelicans and a muscle shell-that to me, who worked in the lab so long looks like a giardia.

The next day was just as beautiful. There were horses on the beach, and cars.

A line of sanderlings along the beach, then spreading out.

And fly off. More horses came along.

 

After dinner we drove back onto the beach to wait for the eclipse of the moon. A huge ship, full of cars went by. Sunset was lovely.

 

Patterns of water on the beach. Then the moon in full eclipse rose out of the sunset clouds. It was totally eclipsed and pink from the sunset  and turned red as it got dark. I used my new telephoto lense   and got this blurry shot of the blood moon.