A landscape photographer's tour

Keith's travels in the Pacific Northwest - September-October 2007

Three years ago, Keith took his then fairly new Canon 1Ds on a driving tour round the Rockies in the USA. This photo-diary covers a driving trip starting at Seattle, Washington in September/October 2007. There are also photo-journals on this site covering an earlier trip to some of the area, but starting at San Francisco. There is also an article on a trip to Colorado

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The weather isn't at its best, but I do enjoy driving along the Pacific coast. These pages will have a few of my pictures along the way. I'm not on my own this time so I'll probably not be keeping quite the detailed notes I usually do... :-)

It's a great place for a vacation, or just a road trip up the Pacific coast to photograph some of the scenery. If you've any questions about the hotels/inns/motels where I stayed, then please do feel free to drop me a line.

	Daily pages 27th September: UK to Seattle 28th September: Into Oregon 29th September: Cannon Beach 30th September: Further South 1st October: Three Capes 2nd October: To Florence 3rd October: quiet day... 4th October: South to Bandon 5th October: On the beach 6th October: Bandon to Bend 7th October: Bend to Seattle 8th October: Around Seattle 9th October: Around Seattle
What's the Washington weather like? What's the Oregon weather like?	National Weather Service radar (Pacific Northwest) What are the roads like? (WA)

This trip isn't quite my normal drive since I'm not on my own this time, and won't be spending quite so much time putting together the travel blog, but I'll try and put a selection of images up each day anyway...

This morning we left Seattle and headed south along I-5 before turning off towards the coast and then into Oregon, ending up at Cannon beach - which happens to be somewhere I like staying :-)

First a bridge - the in-car shots on this trip are taken by Karen, and this one is for her sister who has this thing about bridges (no, I've no idea either)

Stopping off briefly in South Bend (WA) for a snack

As you can see it's raining, so our visit to the "Oyster Capital of the world" was a short one.

Fortunately the weather brightened up as we headed south.

The Columbia River near the crossing to Astoria (a huge bridge)

In fact the weather brightened enough to open up the car :-)

This is me - driving across the bridge

a very long bridge...

At the other side if you follow Highway 101, you find a very unusual feature in the US - a roundabout.

Common in the UK, they are almost unknown over here (I think I saw one in Aspen CO)

And so on to Seaside, which Karen rather aptly described as 'Skegness, done by Disney'

A nice beach however

Centre left in the picture above, you can see a flagpole. It's a monument to the point where Lewis and Clark stopped by the Pacific, on their grand expedition to explore the Pacific northwest at the start of the nineteenth century.

No roads, forrests and mountains... it must have been quite a trip.

Let's see the modern American way :-)

There is a road that comes up to the monument and a loop round it. As you watch, a steady series of SUVs and cars (with the odd RV) drive up, stop for a quick view, and drive off without getting out of the car...

Anyway, Seaside was not the place to stay for us, so on to Cannon Beach, where we'll be for a couple of days

here's a few shots just to give you a feel for it...

and sunset (not one of the best I've seen here)

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