May 26, 2021 Drift Creek, Oregon

 54 and sunny. 

John, Scott and Leslie at the Drift Creek trail head. This is a lush area of old growth trees . Rhody, Leslie, John and Scott on the trail.

Trillium, bleeding heart, unfurling fern fronds. The waist to shoulder deep foliage is very dense and very, very green. 

Old growth forest. Unfurling fern fronds, trillium flower and seed, indian pipe and smooth Solomon's seal. 

Near the creek the trail got narrower and higher. Some of it arched over the trail. Drift Creek. 

 Leslie, John, Scott and Rhody had lunch on the sunbathing rocks at Drift Creek.. View up Drift Creek.

Leslie heading back under moss covered tree limbs. Salmon berry from the shrub arching over my head, spring beauty flowers with moss and with ferns, red and white flowers growing through the ferns.  

Leslie and John passing a huge old growth tree and disappearing into the green. The ferns along the trail were waist to shoulder high. 

Old growth forest, John on the trail with the big trees. 

Oxalis leaves and bloom, tall monkeyflower, and mushrooms in the moss. Leslie walking through the moss covered boulders at the end of the trail.

The ocean from the road on the way back. 

The bridge over the Siuslaw river in Florence. Beautiful, historic downtown Florence, Oregon. 

We had a nice dinner of seafood burritos and enchiladas at Traveler's Cove in Florence.