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. 

May 25, 2021 Waldport, Oregon

 High of 54 and partly sunny.

This morning Leslie and I found the beach, it is a block away from our cottage.  Rhody flying through the air after  a stick in the surf.

Pink flowers on the beach, red clover, sea oats and a yellow sand verbena. We kayaked Beaver Creek this afternoon. John photographing yellow iris on the bank of the creek. 

Scott made this beautiful wooden sea kayak. Leslie paddling up Beaver Creek. 

A mother mallard and her ducklings along shore. It rained and was beautiful and misty. 

Flowering bush along Beaver Creek. John and Leslie ahead on Beaver Creek. 

The sun popped out for awhile and Leslie sunbathing. Leslie ahead paddling  under a flowered tree. 

We came to a log across the river that we could not go under and turned around here. Huge skunk cabbage bloom, yellow flag iris and twinflower.

All the waterways along the coast are affected by the tides. We were boating on neap tide. The tide was coming in- flood tide- as we paddled up, neap is when it is still at the turn of high tide, then on the way down the tide was going out-ebb tide, so it was like paddling downriver both ways. Deep in the neap were were calling it. Paddling out on ebb tide. Leslie waiting by yellow iris which matched her jacket and paddle. 

Big yellow pond lily, wild rhododendron and salal. The beach where Beaver Creek runs into the ocean is Ona Beach. Leslie, Rhody, John and Scott on Ona Beach after our paddle . 

Leslie and Rhody running into the ocean. John walking along Ona beach. 

This cool green seaweed covered rock has tide pools on it.  A cool colored channel in the rocks. 

Looking down Ona Beach. Canada mayflower, milkvetch, holey rock and a beach rock flower. 

Rocks along the cliffs on the beach.  Scott and Leslie at the Salty Dawg, where we had dinner. 

Cinquefoils, a dove among white asters and a  couple of barnacles with seaweed attached. 

We are in a tsunami zone. There is a big fault just to the west in the ocean off the coast of Oregon and Washington. It is shifts a tsunami will head to shore.  At sing for the rest rooms at the Salty Dawg where we had dinner-Restrooms Men to the left and Woman are always right. On the wall above  our table was this mounted walrus wienie. The waitress said they have them in all the bars in Alaska and the owner also has another restaurant in Alaska.