A landscape photographer's tour
Crossing the Columbia river into Oregon
Keith's travels in the Pacific Northwest - September-October 2007
Driving south from Seattle to the Oregon Coast
- This photo-diary covers some of my travel photography from a driving trip starting at Seattle, Washington in September/October 2007. It's a great place for a vacation, or just a road trip along 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.
This trip isn't quite my normal drive since I'm not on my own this time, and won't be spending quite so much time putting together the travel blog, but I'll try and put a selection of images up each day anyway...
This morning we left Seattle and headed south along I-5 before turning off towards the coast and then into Oregon, ending up at Cannon beach - which happens to be somewhere I like staying :-)
First a bridge - the in-car shots on this trip are taken by Karen, and this one is for her sister who has this thing about bridges (no, I've no idea either)
Stopping off briefly in South Bend (WA) for a snack
As you can see it's raining, so our visit to the "Oyster Capital of the world" was a short one.
Fortunately the weather brightened up as we headed south.
The Columbia River near the crossing to Astoria (a huge bridge)
In fact the weather brightened enough to open up the car :-)
This is me - driving across the bridge
a very long bridge...
At the other side if you follow Highway 101, you find a very unusual feature in the US - a roundabout.
Common in the UK, they are almost unknown over here (I think I saw one in Aspen CO)
And so on to Seaside, which Karen rather aptly described as 'Skegness, done by Disney'
A nice beach however
Centre left in the picture above, you can see a flagpole. It's a monument to the point where Lewis and Clark stopped by the Pacific, on their grand expedition to explore the Pacific northwest at the start of the nineteenth century.
No roads, forrests and mountains... it must have been quite a trip.
Let's see the modern American way :-)
There is a road that comes up to the monument and a loop round it. As you watch, a steady series of SUVs and cars (with the odd RV) drive up, stop for a quick view, and drive off without getting out of the car...
Anyway, Seaside was not the place to stay for us, so on to Cannon Beach, where we'll be for a couple of days
here's a few shots just to give you a feel for it...
and sunset (not one of the best I've seen here)
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