November 18- 19, 2016 Harris Beach State Park, Oregon

We  moved a bit south to Brookings, Oregon. We are staying at Harris Beach State park. The campground is on a cliff over looking the beach. We got a front spot, so we have a nice ocean view.  Very windy , cloudy, foggy ,rainy and cool. Highs in the 50’s.

Cat’s took this photo of us on the beach at Cape Blanco.  On the way down we drove through Gold Beach. Here is the bridge into town. It goes over the Rogue River and the river goes into the sea. We have done a few multiple day river trips on the Rogue. Splendid river.

Views on the way down. This part of Oregon is mostly tall cliffs, rugged rocks and sea stacks with a few beaches in between that you have to hike down a steep path down the cliff.  The bus at Harris Beach state park, you can see the ocean behind the bus.

It is still storming. I walked down to the beach, this is a green ferny part of the trail.  A disabled sea gull, two shots of black oystercatchers with their red bills and pink legs, the pattern on a piece of drift wood and there is a god, they have chocolate lilies here.

Still stormy on Sat too. The sun came out as a teaser, so we ran out and went to the beach. We had been trying to figure out how to work the TV to use the cable hook up outside and could not figure it out. So we gave up and went to watch storm waves in the rocks. Kind of like TV only better. It was almost high tide, we dashed across this stretch of beach before the waves got high enough to roll around the giant killer logs.

View south to the rocks, view north up the beach. Most of this is state park. Harris Beach and then Samual Boardman State Scenic corridor. There are trails along the cliff and some to beaches. View points and picnic areas.

The picnic area of the park at the beach. Looking back at the big rocks south.

Periodically the sun came out in snatches. Looking back at the picnic area with sun through the fog.

Watched a little more wave TV. We sat in this spot behind a really big rock and the huge waves went by, but did not come where we were. They were too big and scarey to sit too close too. We are getting bigger tides with the super moon, they call them king tides.

Then hiked back up to camp just before it started to rain again.