northern exposure

Our Holiday Vacation consisted of a 17 day Road Trip into Oregon and the upper Cascade Mountains. Along with snow, sleet and freezing temperatures we intended to find peach and solitude along one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world.

Nothing like a long day on the beaches of Southern Oregon combing for agates and pyrite.

The beaches just north are known for their gemstones and our arrival being just after a big storm made for perfect timing to hunt. After each storm the beaches fill up again with agates sitting right on the top of the rock piles. Makes it for an easy egg hunt I'd say.

Drift wood galore. Literally, it was as if this was a 'junk yard' of wood from all over the world just floated up along these shores. Here we have my one and only high and mighty with his new walking stick and our collection of animal face stumps.