I recently completed a trip up to the Redwood State and National Parks. I stayed at Kamp Klamath in Klamath, CA. It's a really nicely wooded campground a mile and a had from the beach. Having made previous trips to the redwoods I decided to try and broaden my horizon on this trip and seek out a little more wildlife as well as taking in a drive up to the southern Oregon border to drive the Boardman Scenic Corridor.
The redwoods are an amazing place to visit if you haven't. One disclaimer is the construction on 101 is quite annoying. While it moves reasonably well, there are 3 traffic light controlled one lane sections, as well as daily manned construction sites that stop traffic as needed. But if you've never been, you should go.
This time of year the prize photo catch is to get rhododendrons in bloom amongst the redwoods with some nice fog and hopefully the beautiful sun rays through the fog. I didn't quite find the sunrays, but to quote Meatloaf, two outta three ain't bad.
I had seen this bull elk the day before out in the meadow. But I couldn't get an interesting photo. I went back the next day to search him out again but he was nowhere to be found. After shooting other elk I was packing up when a guy came over and asked me if I wanted to see a really big elk. So he leads me just past a large, open picnic area to where the "forest" begins. Sure enough, there he is as if waiting for me. The perfect environmental portrait.
I wandered down to the beach one afternoon. There were different birds "fishing" the area. This osprey later caught himself an eel.
The area is also home to many harbor seals. I had to wait for low tide the next day to walk out to a little island where a huge group were sunning themselves. I believe this a new young one and it's mother.
The lower Oregon coast is just beautiful. I wish I had more time to spend there. I spent most of the day driving and stopping at turnouts. This is one of the more famous ones called Natural Bridges.
It turns out there is an osprey who spends a lot of time perched in a tree near the beach. I spent parts of a couple of days watching him take off and return. In my time there he never came back with a fish but the landings were always quite interesting. This one was a false start takeoff.
The redwoods are an amazing place to visit if you haven't. One disclaimer is the construction on 101 is quite annoying. While it moves reasonably well, there are 3 traffic light controlled one lane sections, as well as daily manned construction sites that stop traffic as needed. But if you've never been, you should go.
This time of year the prize photo catch is to get rhododendrons in bloom amongst the redwoods with some nice fog and hopefully the beautiful sun rays through the fog. I didn't quite find the sunrays, but to quote Meatloaf, two outta three ain't bad.
I had seen this bull elk the day before out in the meadow. But I couldn't get an interesting photo. I went back the next day to search him out again but he was nowhere to be found. After shooting other elk I was packing up when a guy came over and asked me if I wanted to see a really big elk. So he leads me just past a large, open picnic area to where the "forest" begins. Sure enough, there he is as if waiting for me. The perfect environmental portrait.
I wandered down to the beach one afternoon. There were different birds "fishing" the area. This osprey later caught himself an eel.
The area is also home to many harbor seals. I had to wait for low tide the next day to walk out to a little island where a huge group were sunning themselves. I believe this a new young one and it's mother.
The lower Oregon coast is just beautiful. I wish I had more time to spend there. I spent most of the day driving and stopping at turnouts. This is one of the more famous ones called Natural Bridges.
It turns out there is an osprey who spends a lot of time perched in a tree near the beach. I spent parts of a couple of days watching him take off and return. In my time there he never came back with a fish but the landings were always quite interesting. This one was a false start takeoff.
