Photos taken by jl98584

Day 206 - Three Arches

These rooks are a rookery for several different sea birds. Teddy Roosevelt set them aside as a wildlife refuge.

Date: 25 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 206 - Rockaway Beach Arches

The weather wouldn't let up, but I thought it made the scenery even more spectacular.

Date: 25 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 206 - Rockaway Beach

This is on the "Three Capes" scenic drive in Oregon, between Pacific City and Tillamook. It's too bad they had to build so close to the beach

Date: 25 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 206 - Oregon Beaches from Andersons View Point

Same as the beaches we've been seeing for weeks, but the storm makes it look different.

Date: 25 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 206 - Octopus Tree

This is a very old Sitka Spruce. The unusual branching was caused by the rough coastal conditions.

Date: 25 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 206 - Great Blue Heron

These birds may be fairly common up here, but he still looked cold to me.

Date: 25 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 206 - Cape Meares Welcome

Oregon has really created a nice welcome and facility at Cape Meares. It includes informative signs about sea birds and other marine life.

Date: 25 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 206 - Cape Meares Lighthouse, Lens

This is the First Order Fresnel Lens at Cape Meares. It is unusual in that it's an eight sided lens with the alternate sides red, to make an alternating red & white pattern.

Date: 25 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 206 - Cape Meares Lighthouse

Finally up close to a west coast lighthouse. It is up on a bluff, so the tower is only tall enough to house the mechanism.

Date: 25 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 206 - Wind Blown Waves

This was just below the Cape Meares lighthouse. The wind was whipping up the waves quite impressively.

Date: 25 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 205 - Tillamook, Pasture

There are 150 dairy farms in the Tillamook Creamery Cooperative, so lots in this area.

Date: 24 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 205 - Tillamook, Packaging Cheese

The factory tour is self paced, the viewing area allows you to watch several different parts of the cheesemaking process.

Date: 24 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 205 - Tillamook, Morning Star

This is a full scale replica of the Morning Star. The original was built in 1854 by local farmers to carry butter to Portland.

Date: 24 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 205 - Tillamook, Making Cheese

These large vats are part of the Tillamook cheese making process.

Date: 24 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 205 - Tillamook River

Western Oregon Coast receives quite a bit of rainfall and has a fairly temporate climate, making for lovely green pastures and lots of trees.

Date: 24 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 205 - Tillamook Cheese Factory

Several large tanker trucks came through to deliver milk to the cheese factory.

Date: 24 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Zoo's were having trouble breeding bactrian camels, which are the ones with two humps. This farm outside Salem seems to have a better climate (cooler) that the camels like, so is often used by the Zoo's as a breeding farm.

Date: 24 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 205 - Rock with Holes

I was told there were a lot of fossels on this beach. I don't know if this is one, but thought it was pretty interesting. Some of the holes are over an inch across (2-3cm).

Date: 24 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 205 - Oregon Beach Sunset

This was at Cape Kiwanda, near Pacific City

Date: 24 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 205 - Fort Yamhill Site

Fort Yamhill was built in 1856 to try to keep the peace along the border between white settlers and the Native Americans that had been moved to the Great Rhondo Reservation.

Date: 24 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Astoria, USA
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Day 205 - Easter Bunny

There were several rabbits running around the campground. Based on their colorations, I don't think they were wild rabbits, more likely domesticad rabbits that had been let loose.