Fort Stevens State Park, Warrenton, Oregon ~February 3, 2006
If you like driftwood, you'll find it in winter on the Oregon beaches. Brought in by the storms, it accumulates along the dunes that separate the beach from the forest and grasslands. The park is large and varied, incorporating ocean, forest, bike trails, lakes, and old miltary bunkers, and it's all about 8 miles west of Astoria.
I took the photo standing a few yards from one of our favorite sites, the wreck of the Peter Iredale. It's such a picturesque and interesting spot (and easy to get to) that I've already used it three times on this blog: sunset, bones of the ship (one of my favorite photos on the blog), and sunset with ship's bones. These photos are taken just a couple of miles south of the jetty series at the mouth of the Columbia River. Fort Stevens also holds this military cemetery. A person could do an entire City Daily Photo blog on Fort Stevens and never run out of material. Don't get me started, I'll end up like Jacob.
7 comments:
I love driftwood. We don't get much of it here. Each piece is so unique.
As a child, I collected driftwood. What a blast from my past!
Jan
GDP
Oh yes! That's for me! I'd make allsorts of things with tiny bits of the wood!
I've seen it thrown around like toothpicks. Have we seen the water higher there?!!!
How'd I miss this? Lovely photo. Are people allowed to take the driftwood home?
Not much driftwood here and it's a pity because it is usually interesting.
I love driftwood. We get much of it here in east coast of italy, usually begin of spring we clean part of beach front house!
nice blog!
ciao, Luis
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