Back Again

We are back for the time being. Waiting for the flotsam.

Leaving

Bye.

Thresher

Found on the beach, 9/21/09. Hauled away in a rusty truck. Very beautiful. Some idiot tried to get his picture taken pulling up the creature's snout, to reveal a mouthful of sharky teeth. Sorry, this fella has big eyes, not big teeth. He looked the fool, and there was a murmur of disapproval from the little crowd that had gathered to take pictures with their cells phones and so forth. The shark remained beautiful. Its tail was very long. The beach is littered with little stinky dead fishes and many gulls too full of rotting fish to get off the ground. High high tides. Beautiful but weird hot weather, an east wind fighting off the cool mist. Brilliant starry nights and a little gold crescent moon.

Sooty Sheerwaters

These guys were busy diving for anchovies or ooligans - hard to say - the other night in the thousands, reeling with the wind and waves, plunged through by gigantic brown pelicans, ringed by raucous gulls of all sorts, the water stippled by their plenty. They migrate from New Zealand, and appeared at our little cove like a marvel last night, but tonight, they are all gone. Could be, apparently, anywhere.

Coastal

Kinda like.

Beware of Teeth!

They say that sharks are coming in to feast on baby porpoises and seals hereabouts. Lifeguards are warning people in the surf. Last night, I counted nine surfers our in the swell. Be careful, everyone.

Newport NOAA

Newport is pretty quiet now, but once NOAA arrives, it's going to be pretty busy! With the fabulous acquarium already there, Newport, Oregon is going to be a fantastic ocean science location. We already loved Yaquina Head, not to mention Sylvia Beach Hotel, and now, wow!