Theme and variations: sand and sea

Last set from the Yachats beach:

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Theme and variations: sky meets sea meets earth

More photos from the Yachats coast, from the house to the bridge.

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Theme and variations: green meets grey

The Yachats coast, from the house to the bridge:

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Favorite Yachats trip photo

I invited my fellow travelers to send me their favorite photo of the Yachats trip for posting here. No one took me up on it. Here’s mine. Mark and cs10, less than a mile north of our Yachats house.

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Friends on the beach

I must have taken 3 or 4 late afternoon or evening walks on the Yachats beach. These are from our last evening.

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Yachats musical interlude, II

Lyric: Marg Vocals: alyeskatraveler Music:  A certain Austrian pop musician No avocados were eaten in the making of this recording.  (Not that I didn’t think about it.)

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Yachats feast days

Speaking of Perpetua(l) feast days, every day was a feast day for us in Yachats.            Marg and Knarf took turns as head dinner chefs.  Margaret specialized in ever-more-delicious reinventions of chicken soup (I liked the one with tomatoes best)—Knarf in orgies of local seafood.      With an uncountable number of mussels there for harvesting in our [...]

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Perpetua

Yeesh.  I’ve been so busy this month writing and editing photos at work that it’s been hard to find the energy to do the same for the blog.   But today, I’m determined. Cape Perpetua Scenic Area was a very short drive from our house in Yachats and quite wonderful.  All 15 of us headed out [...]

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Yachats musical interlude, I

And now for a musical interlude (click play arrow): Music and lyrics:  Marg Vocals:  alyeskatraveler

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Getting there: The Yachats convergence

When we start planning these trips, no one expects that 17 friends and relatives will end up in the same place.   (At least, not since the last of Al’s great whitewater rafting trips in 1999.)  We spend months trying to get a handful or two of people to commit to a single place, date, and style of travel, [...]

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