A landscape photographer's tour
Jenner, CA to Fort Bragg, CA

Keith's travels in California and the Pacific Northwest - April-May 2007

This photo-diary covers a driving trip up the coast from San Francisco in April/May 2007 along the Pacific highway
Now I've returned, I've included some of my travel photography from this trip in the main Gallery, and updated any info that may be of help to people who come across these pages as part of their planning for driving tours of the California and Oregon coasts, looking for places to stay or sites to visit. It's a great place for a vacation, or just a road trip up the Pacific coast to photograph some of the scenery. If you've any questions about the hotels/inns/motels where I stayed, then please do feel free to drop me a line.

What's the Californian weather like? What's the Oregon weather like? National Weather Service radar (Pacific Northwest) What are the roads like? (CA)

Daily pages 19th April: UK to San Francisco 20th April: San Francisco to Jenner, CA 21st April: Jenner, CA to Fort Bragg, CA 22nd April: Fort Bragg, CA to Eureka, CA 23rd April; Eureka, CA to Crescent City, CA 24th April: Crescent City, CA to Bandon, OR 25th April: Bandon, OR to Florence, OR 26th April: Florence, OR 27th April: Florence, OR to Pacific City, OR 28th April: Cape Kiwanda, OR 29th April: Pacific City, OR to Cannon Beach,OR 30th April: Cannon Beach, OR to Shasta, CA 1st May: Shasta, CA to Lakeport, CA 2nd May: Lakeport, CA to San Francisco 3rd May: San Francisco to UK

When is wireless internet not so useful? When the bit of damp string connecting it to the rest of the internet has dried out :-)

I knew there were problems uploading files yesterday, but unlike some of the motels I've stayed at, the first sitting at the restaurant in Jenner was at 8:30am. So, here I am sitting in my car outside, using their wireless connection to check my email and try and upload the missing files, while I'm waiting for breakfast...

Well, it worked a bit..

Not long afterwards I'm in the restaurant - unfortunately they had only just reopened and supplies were short.

Not actually a problem - this is the excellent Eggs Florentine I had (note other guests, still waiting for their food looking on ;-)

The weather was dry, but the forecast not good. In fact I'm now in Fort Bragg, listening to the rain pouring down outside.

It's been raining several hours now, I may go out shortly...

Back to the road...

The coast road is a great drive.

The shot below gives an idea of how high some parts go.

I took quite a lot of photos from this site and may well try stitching some together when I'm back home, with a faster computer.

In the meantime, here's a black and white version, converted from colour using the new BW adjustment in Photoshop CS3 (I'll be adding this to the collection of colour to black and white conversion methods on this site)

Not long after, the rain started...

Back to the topic of food, here's a very nice prawn omlette I had for lunch at Elk

I had a mail from Australia suggesting that the trees I showed yesterday are a type of Eucalyptus.

Today's interesting tree collections come in rows, sometimes planted very close together...

So now I'm in Fort Bragg, listening to the rain.

After a while I went out to pick up some food - still raining

Enough of this - hopefully a bit drier tomorrow :-)

NEXT DAY

19th April >> 20th April >> 21st April >> 22nd April >> 23rd April >> 24th April >> 25th April >> 26th April>>27h April>>28th April>>29th April>>30th April>>1st May>>2nd May>>3rd May

Other travel blogs

October 2008 - Travelling in Colorado (picture from 'Photo-blog')	'Cascade Colours' from Keith's Autumn 2007 visit to Oregon/Washington
Fall 2010 - Visit to the USA, Pacific Northwest	A sample from Keith's photo-diary of his 2006 visit to Colorado