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Keith's travels in California and the Pacific Northwest - April-May 2007
Three years ago, Keith took his then fairly new Canon 1Ds on a driving tour round the Rockies in the USA. This photo-diary covers a driving trip up the coast from San Francisco in April/May 2007.
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Now I'm back I'll have a check through the pages and include links to any pictures I put in the Gallery, along with 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.
There are other photo travel diaries covering trips to:
Washington and Oregon in September/October 2007 and Colorado in April/May 2006
A relatively short journey today - up to Florence. It's much easier to travel bigger distances here than in the crowded busy roads of the UK.
Just gone 7am and the dawn sun catches cloud above the Coquille River. This is the view from my room...
Not far up the coast, it's another nice sandy beach - the early morning cloud is starting to clear
Another imposing looking bridge
There are some wide estuaries along the Oregon coast, and some pretty big bridges, some of which tilt or swing for boats to get past.
Wood processing in Coos bay
A huge pile of sawdust - ok wood chips...
Sand dunes make up a fair bit of the coast in this area
In the old town, Florence
Florence harbour
and a visit to Siuslaw River Coffee Roasters for my first coffee of the day...
The town may be pretty, but is not without the usual ugly Dodge you see spoiling the view all over the US.
I'm sure the owners like it, but it's one of those companies that if it vanished, the world would be a slightly nicer place :-)
I stopped off at Digital Dunes and had a good chat with Curt Peters - here he is with some of his work
Then I spotted these bears on a trailer
And some more coffee was needed :-)
I'm staying at The River House and this is the view from my room :-)
Meanwhile, since there's not many today, here's another nice beach (Heceta Beach)
Ok, I think that'll do for the time being, time to go out for some food :-)
So I leave my room, and there's a BBQ in the car park...
A genuine use for the pickup
Real beer, and a damn site better kept than at the Pump and Tap :-) (my local pub in Leicester, England)
Along with a very nice seafood pasta thingy
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