Heading Home !

 

You may not even have known that we left our home in Bristol, RI and drove 49 hours to Sumas, Washington to pick up our new Escape trailer, but we did. Once we left Sumas with our trailer, we were heading home! We have been following Route 101 south along the coast, Washington, Oregon, and now California. The west coast is wild! The roar of the waves is never far away. This photo is of prehistoric mega-creatures heading back to the deep sea or maybe they are coming ashore? You can make up your own story. They formed millions of years ago as lava from Eastern Washington and Oregon and cooled into solid basalt.  Millions of years of erosion have given us the magnificent mega-creatures we see today. 

The following photos are from our walks along the shore, which we will continue to do until we actually turn east and head cross-country, leaving the Pacific behind.

The beaches in most locations have been beautiful sand of varying colors, but we do like a good rocky shore to look for rocks!

This is a natural bas-relief sculpture, of  what, I am not sure. It was on the face of a boulder (4 ft. x 5 ft.) They look like giant worms or maybe the tunnels of giant worms?

 

The shore in Washington was covered with driftwood and I really wanted to collect a few pieces for an art project I've been contemplating, but there were signs saying "No collecting driftwood" and "No fires"...so I only took a couple of really small pieces...and one that was a little larger, but we didn't start any fires. The ferry is the one we took the next day from Whidbey Island to the Olympic Peninsula.

And then there are the tidal pools...they never get old! This is the aptly named "green anemone" and if you look closely you'll see a few other creatures.

On our way south to Bodega Bay we passed through Humboldt Redwoods State Park and took a slight detour through the Avenue of Giants.

We are currently at I: Bodega Dunes State Park. Surprisingly, there is a substantial Portuguese population here, the port is named Porto Bodega.

  ... and the surf rolling onto the Oregon shore.