Tide pools, Rain Forest and Rain
Woke up this morning to heavy fog. Not the kind of fog you can’t see through. The kind of fog you can feel landing on your head and hear hitting the leaves. Not falling hard enough to really get you very wet though.
We drove south again to catch the tide pools at low tide. The first spot we walked to was kind of sparse for pools with much in them but we found a few.
We then walked back up the trail and over to another beach. We were going for the beach but found out that this beach is probably under water at higher tides and the rocks along the beach which were now totally out of water were covered with tide pool life. It was like walking in a huge tide pool with a sandy bottom and no water.
The yellow dot is a snail shell about a quarter inch long.
This would make a good puzzle.
We drove to the the top of the cape to a view point. Supposed to be able to see 75 miles out to sea and 150 miles of coastline from there. We saw flat gray everywhere. Could hear waves below us though. Back down the hill to look at the campground. Green and lush. Wet, but green and lush. I read a description of Cape Perpetua that said that area had twice the foliage per square acre than the Amazon forests. Very pretty even in the rain which by then was officially rain. We took a short hike from the end of the campground to the largest spruce tree in Oregon. Difficult to photograph up close and in the rain though.
Back home to the carbus. Turned on the heater and sat back to watch the rain and listen to it on the roof. Have had worse Sunday afternoons.
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