A landscape photographer's tour
Bandon, OR to Florence, OR

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.

There are other photo travel diaries covering trips to:
Washington and Oregon in Fall 2007 and Colorado in Spring 2006 and Fall 2008

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

What's the Californian weather like? What's the Oregon weather like?

National Weather Service radar (Pacific Northwest) What are the roads like? (CA)

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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

NEXT DAY

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