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Oregon Road Trip – Day 6 – Pacific City, OR to Florence, OR

Posted in Birding, Nature, Photography, Travel on 14 August, 2007 | 7 Comments »

I woke up at 6am to see the “famous” Dory Fleet put into the sea (Pacific City has no harbor, and its fishing fleet of flat-bottomed dories puts in from car-towed trailers on the beach), but a peek out our window showed no boats at all, so I went back to bed. Haystack Rock [...]

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Oregon Road Trip – Day 5 – Portland, OR to Pacific City, OR

Posted in Birding, Hiking, Nature, Photography, Travel, Wildflowers on 10 August, 2007 | 8 Comments »

Sarah & I woke up early, had a quick breakfast, said our goodbyes, and were on the road at 8:30, heading west toward Tillamook. The drive was only about 90 minutes, and was very pretty as well as traffic-free once we cleared the Portland metro area. A tourist-trap for cheese addicts like myself (warning, this [...]

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Oregon Road Trip – Days 2, 3 & 4 – Portland, OR

Posted in Birding, Nature, Photography, Travel on 6 August, 2007 | 5 Comments »

We woke up at 7:45am and watched the conclusion of the Tour de France (go Discovery!) and had a fantastic breakfast at Morning Glory, a recommendation from the good people at Chowhound, which was conveniently located a couple of doors down from our hotel (more (much more) on restaurants we ate at as time allows), [...]

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Oregon Road Trip – Day 1 – SF to Ashland, OR

Posted in Birding, Nature, Photography, Travel on 6 August, 2007 | 11 Comments »

This is the first of numerous posts I’ll write over the next week (or two or three about my recent trip up to Portland, Oregon, and back down the lovely Oregon coast. We loaded up the car, filled up the tank ($3.65/gal for 87 octane in SF), and hit the road at 8:30am. The drive [...]

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Birding at Radio Road (Redwood City, CA)

Posted in Birding, Nature, Photography on 6 August, 2007 | 6 Comments »

I meant to post this before heading to Oregon for 10 days, but so it goes. I briefly swung by the Radio Road ponds in Redwood Shores on the way home from work on 19 July, and was glad I did. Dowitcher sp. Many avocet chicks were on the sandbars and next to the road [...]

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