A landscape photographer's tour

Keith's travels in the Pacific Northwest - September-October 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 starting at Seattle, Washington in September/October 2007. There are also photo-journals on this site covering an earlier trip to some of the area, but starting at San Francisco. There is also an article on a trip to Colorado

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The weather isn't at its best, but I do enjoy driving along the Pacific coast. These pages will have a few of my pictures along the way. I'm not on my own this time so I'll probably not be keeping quite the detailed notes I usually do... :-)

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.

	Daily pages 27th September: UK to Seattle 28th September: Into Oregon 29th September: Cannon Beach 30th September: Further South 1st October: Three Capes 2nd October: To Florence 3rd October: quiet day... 4th October: South to Bandon 5th October: On the beach 6th October: Bandon to Bend 7th October: Bend to Seattle 8th October: Around Seattle 9th October: Around Seattle
What's the Washington weather like? What's the Oregon weather like?	National Weather Service radar (Pacific Northwest) What are the roads like? (WA)

Just a quiet day today, so a bit of a drive, a bit of a shop and not a lot else in Florence :-)

Since Karen has never been to the US before, we went to the local Safeway to get something for lunch

supermarket at florence oregon

lots of huge packs of stuff - and lots cheaper than the UK too

Such a wide range of snacks... althought here Karen suspects the packs look too much like walkers crisps from the UK

packets of crisps in Florence

And as a fan of Oreos (not easy to get in the UK), she is spoilt for choice...

shelves of oreos in oregon

However the range of ice cream is impressive...

oregon ice cream

Back outside the Motel, in the river, there are cormorants sunning themselves

cormorant siuslaw river oregon

and this long legged white bird looking for fish

heron siuslaw river oregon

Lastly a picture of the bridge at Florence (30 second exposure)

Note - I've been instructed to mention that oreos, crisps and ice cream were -not- actually purchased at Safeway :-)

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