Along the Oregon Coast - May, 2006

I enjoyed the flight home. The views of Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood, the snow covered Sierra Nevada, and the Bay Area kept me looking out the window.

Phil Clouster in his gallery.

The town of Coos Bay is home to a number of lumber companies.

A heron, hunting for fish, wandered into the reflection of a ship's mast at the harbor.

A very steep and very narrow road out of Oceanside leads to a wonderful and vertiginious viewpoint.

The last light of the sun was reflected in the wet sand.

Local residents I met atop the Column were kind enough to tell me about an eagle nest that I found in a residential area of town.

The Captain George Flavel House, constructed in 1855.

I climbed the circular staircase, with 164 steps, to the top of the column!

The history of Oregon is pictured on the Column.

The view from the top of the famed Astoria Column is expansive.