S. M. Garver - Oregon Coast images

Oregon Coast images - Page 8 of 10
This page includes images from Gold Beach and Cape Sebastian.

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- - - - - Gold Beach, Oregon - July 25, 2012 - - - - -

This may be an immature ring-billed gull.
[Close up of a gull with a white and grey speckled head, a grey body, a white belly, a black tail, and a black marking on its grey beak as it walks through the sand with its grey-green legs and webbed feet.]

Evening mist at Gold Beach
[The foregound is clear, but the background is full of fog with the hillside popping through it. One can see sand and some driftwood in the foreground and a little bit of the ocean which then disappears into the fog.]

- - - - - Gold Beach, Oregon - November 27-28, 2012 - - - - -

Gulls above the waves at Gold Beach
[The outline of three flying gulls can be seen against and orange sunset sky. Cylindrical ocean waves roll toward the viewer.]

The setting sun colors the beach and seafoam with gold.
[Only the waves and seafoam flowing to the sand are visible. The wet sand is bright gold while the rest is bluish gray. The seafoam has flecks of gold in it as the wind whips up the incoming waves.]

Sunset on the beach at low tide
[The sun is a gold orb in the sky with an orange ring around it. The sun backlights the horizontal clouds as was as a strip of ocean and turns the wet sand gold.]

[The sun has lowered a bit and starts dipping below the cloud line above the ocean. The orb of the sun is a little less defined than earlier photos and seafoam covers most of the gold sand.]

[A large wave curls toward the beach under the last of the violet orange gold setting sun.]

Deer in the hotel parking lot
[Doe with black tipped ears staring at the camera. One ear faces the camera and the other is turned the opposite way. It stands beside a fence post feeder.]

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- - - - - Cape Sebastian - Gold Beach, Oregon - July 25-26, 2012 - - - - -

Roadway to Cape Sebastian viewpoint
[A one-lane paved roadway passes under the crossed branches of the thick stand of spruces on either side of the roadway. The branches meet across the roadway forming a canopy. The edges of the roadway are lined with dried needles. This image was shot while standing in the roadway.]

Another view of the one-way road to the viewpoint (One drives a different one-way road down from the viewpoint.)
[Image of the same roadway but shot while standing off the other side of the road. Less greenery and more branches are visible in the trees.]

Trees along the road
[These spruce trees have very short lower branches which have no needles but are covered with lots of green moss.]

- - - - - Cape Sebastian - November 26, 2012 - - - - -

Cape Sebastion State Park viewpoint looking north.
[From a lofty perch white-capped waves are visible hitting the high rock as the water's edge. In the distance a strip of land juts into the ocean.]

Closer view of the city of Gold Beach (far end of prior photo)
[Close-up of portion of land jutting into the ocean from the prior photo. More land(beach) is visible as are white dots of individual buildings.]

The multitude of rain on the coast means mushrooms thrive here.
[Two tan and white mushrooms who've tops have split such that they almost appear to be petals on a flower grow under the evergreens.]

It also means moss thrives.
[Moss not only completely covers the limb, the moss is so long it hangs from the limb.]

Sea stacks in Hunter Cove at Cape Sebastian State Park
[Sun streaks through dark clouds to light a portion of the ocean, sand, and rock.]

Mack Arch seen from Hunter Cove.
[Looking into the ocean one can sea many sea stacks and one open-arched rock. Because of the clouds, the rocks look dark while much of the foreground water has a white cast from the sun.]

Hunter Cove
[A stretch of beach with seaweed and wood leads up to a stretch of evergreens on a cape.]

The tide brought in this creature which did its best to move around as per the track in the sand.
[Stretch of beach with the start of some wavy and circular tracks in the middle and at one end lies a lump of an animal.]

Close-up of creature from the sea (It may have been an injured baby seal or sea lion.)
[A clump of brown fur with several visible flippers and what appears to be a hole in its fur lies on the sand.]

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