It rained overnight, so I decided to take advantage of all the moisture and clean the Explorer. By the time I was done, the Explorer looked like it had been washed and chamoised off.
Since it was still overcast and cloudy, we decided to stay in camp for the morning. Carol did some wash, and I tried to get caught up on my images.
Like several of the days lately, the sky cleared in the early afternoon. We drove back
to
Cape Perpetua
to photograph the incoming tide along this rocky stretch of shoreline.
We couldn't pass up the view from the top of the headland where the road snakes along the edge of the cliffs, so that
was our first stop. Then, it was back down to the rocky area
near the bridge. We walked down to the main viewing area
and enjoyed watching the waves rolling in.
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| Cape Perpetua Viewpoint | Cape Perpetua |
After Cape Perpetua, we continued south to the Haceta Head Lighthouse
viewpoint. After we photographed the lighthouse from the highway viewpoint, we drove down to the beach below the lighthouse where
we could walk up the trail to the lighthouse keeper's house and the
lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper's house is now a bed and breakfast famous
for its 7-course breakfasts.
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| Haceta Head | Haceta Head |
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| Haceta Head Lighthouse Keeper's House | Haceta Head Lighthouse |
After we finished at Haceta Head, we returned to Cape Perpetua to shoot sunset.
We arrived early, so we read in the car while we waited for sunset. Then, just as the light was getting good, a photo tour pulled up. We quickly hiked down to the
area where we wanted to set up to photograph the waves crashing against the rocks at sunset. The photo tour participants had no qualms about walking down in front of us and then
standing in front of the waves crashing below us. They didn't even look back to see if they were encroaching into someone else's shots.
We seem to be seeing that more and more. Common courtesy is getting harder to find even among photographers.
The sunset was blocked by the off-shore fog bank again, but we enjoyed shooting the waves anyway. It was nearing high tide, so the waves were starting to pound the rocky coast. There were areas on each side of us where the waves could follow a channel between the rocks. The channel focused the power of the wave into a smaller and smaller area until it crashed against the shore. The channel to our left even had a water spout that shot water into the air when the bigger waves channeled the water into the vertical "pipe." It was starting to get pretty dark by the time the waves were strong enough to consistently create the water spout, but it was still interesting to watch.
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| Water Spout | The Ever Constant Sea |
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