Night on the Coast

Last weekend we spent Saturday night at the coast to celebrate my birthday and in honor of a promotion of sorts I've received at work. We stayed in Yachats, a small village with a handful of restaurants and shops and little else besides spectacular scenery. We ate some good food and stayed in a charming if somewhat dated little cottage next door to Yachats State Park.

The highlight of our 24-hour trip was watching the storms come in. The top three pictures below were taken at Yachats State Park. The bottom two were taken at the the end of the Hobbit Trail which I mentioned in one of my first posts to to this blog, just north of Heceta Head Lighthouse. You can literally see the storm catching up to us in the bottom one. We timed it just right and had just headed back into the woods when the hail started coming down.

If we had decided to drive a mile and a half further south to Heceta Head itself, we might have seen a fin whale that drew crowds when it washed up on the beach. We were oblivious to this, however, and on a mission to get chai and fudge back in Yachats, so headed north instead and missed the fin whale, which, sadly, died and was buried on the beach the next day.