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)

At last the weather looks a bit better :-) In the search for a few days nice weather we decided to carry on south to Bandon (it looks as if we will head inland and start north on Saturday now.

south on highway 101

Definite signs of better weather...

Sunset bay

Here's a view from Cape Arago showing that while nice weather is appreciated, it makes it more difficult to get good black and white shots :-)

cape Arago

Off the coast are hundreds of Sea Lions at Simpson Reef, making a lot of noise, even several hundred yards away

sea lions at Simpson reef

Anyway here's the car, now with roof down again. Note Karen for scale - this car would look huge parked outside my house in the UK - the tires are more the size I'd expect on a Transit van :-) Mind you, a 4.6L V8 does pull past RVs very effectively ;-)

mustang convertible