Harris Beach State Park, Oregon Caves, OR

Another lovely beach in front of our motorhome!  This time we are up on a bluff and have a bit further to go to get to the beach but oh is it worth it!!  Having a great time here with just a couple of days left.  This area is more rugged and dramatic than further up the coast.  We have had mostly sunny days which is unusual for this time of year and so have been very fortunate!

morning looking off the bluff over Harris Beach

Harris Beach at high tide, at low tide the rocks in the distance expose hundreds of sea stars!

We drove inland to check out
Oregon Caves National
Monument, one of the few marble
caves in the US

after the cave tour we did a small hike up to this viewpoint

Nov 4, cloudy, a bit rainy and very dramatic on the coast!

we have seen several black tail deer around including in our campsite

Our hiking here has been primarily along sections of the Oregon Coat Trail.  A nice workout with lots of ups and downs and, of course, marvelous scenery!  One minute you are walking near the ocean with a wide open view and the next slipping into the trees, like the picture below, for a section of dense forest.  It is amazing!

here we are walking up the trail, past a Canadian goose:), and into the "hole" in the forest!  The goose dd not want
to leave the trail for some reason we could not determine as we did not see any more around

in a forested section of the OT

a view from the Oregon Trail

local brewery in Brookings, very nice and close:)

Humbug Mountain State Park, we hiked here one day

On Harris Beach at low tide
what fun!

Exposed mussels, barnacles
and hundreds of sea stars
(star fish) and crabs!!

rock after rock have sea stars attached, I've never seen so many!!

a bit of a dramatic sunset  perhaps, but hey, that's what my camera "saw"

light and waves coming through Arch Rock in the afternoon on our beach 

a more realistic and still dramatic sunset on Harris Beach