| | Description | Date |
| Adam was very popular with all the animals at the West Coast Game Park Safari. Probably because he was holding an ice cream cone filled with their food. | 9/21/2007 |
| The animals did certainly seem to flock around Adam. One of the goats not seen in this picture actually head-butted him a couple of times in the knee to try and get his attention. | 9/21/2007 |
| There was a baby bear cub named Bailey that we were allowed to pet, as long aas he was distracted with a drink from his bottle. | 9/21/2007 |
| They had a baby white tiger named Sultan that we were alowed to hold and pet. Just like Bailey, it was ok as long as Sultan had a bottle in his mouth to distract him. | 9/21/2007 |
| Here's Sultan walking along the counter where we could pet him. | 9/21/2007 |
| And a close-up of the markings on the back of Sultan's head. | 9/21/2007 |
| Here is a DeBrazza's Monkey that we affectionately dubbed "The Professor" | 9/21/2007 |
| Another photo of The Professor, this time sticking his tongue out at us. | 9/21/2007 |
| You know what they say, "Let sleeping lions lay". So we did. | 9/21/2007 |
| Here's a possum just hanging out and greeting everyone. | 9/21/2007 |
| We forgot what kind of animal this was. It could have been a coati mundi. | 9/21/2007 |
| A pair of sea gulls in the surf at Bandon. | 9/21/2007 |
| Adam admiring the surf in Bandon | 9/21/2007 |
| Here are those gulls from a different angle. | 9/21/2007 |
| Adam standing on a rock in Bandon | 9/21/2007 |
| On our first day in Bandon the wind was quite fierce. None of the pictures really show it that well, but here is Adam getting driven back by the sand getting whipped in his face as he came around a rock on the beach. | 9/21/2007 |
| A large flock of gulls resting on the beach in Bandon. | 9/21/2007 |
| The sunset from our room in Bandon on the first night. That's Face Rock on the right of the photo. You can kind of see the face lying back at a 45 degree angle peering up at the sky. | 9/21/2007 |
| Another shot of the sunset from our room | 9/21/2007 |
| And another sunset photo. It was a really nice sunset that evening. | 9/21/2007 |
| Yet another sunset shot. | 9/21/2007 |
| And another, with the reflection visible in the surf. | 9/21/2007 |
| This sunset shot came out with some different hues of blue. | 9/21/2007 |
| One last shot of the sunset, this time with Face Rock on the left of the shot. | 9/21/2007 |
| Some of the interesting rock formations at shore Acres State Park. | 9/22/2007 |
| Another shot of the rock formations in the surf at Shore Acres State Park. | 9/22/2007 |
| A close-up of the formation. Notice the deep grooves in the rock, I'm not sure what caused that. | 9/22/2007 |
| More intersting rock formations. This one clearly looks like a hand. | 9/22/2007 |
| Here's a small cave with the surf rushing in, and a cool old tree on the top. | 9/22/2007 |
| Look closely in the lower right on this photo. What appeared to be an otter was scurrying on the rocks here, and this was the best picture we could get of it. A naturalist said they don't have Sea Otters there at Shore Acres, and a River Otter would be unusual. But I don't know what else it could have been. Can anyone else shed some light on this? | 9/22/2007 |
| Here you can really see the layers of sandstone at Shore Acres State Park. | 9/22/2007 |
| Did you ever wonder where Captain Crunch finds those berries for Crunch Berry cereal? We found a tree in Shore Acres where they grow. Who knew? | 9/22/2007 |
| A fuscia plant overhanging the pond at Shore Acres State Park. | 9/22/2007 |
| Here's Adam next to the fuscia and pond at Shore Acres. | 9/22/2007 |
| The pond and Japanese Gardens at Shore Acres State Park. Hard to believe this is only a few hundred yards from the pounding surf of the Pacific Ocean. | 9/22/2007 |
| Notice all the cones on the ground here. This tree had apparently reached the time of year where it drops all it's cones. There was no breeze at all, and yet there were dozens of cones falling down and pelting the path. We looked up to see if there was a monkey or something throwing them down at us. | 9/22/2007 |
| Another shot of the pond and gardens at Shore Acres Staet Park. | 9/22/2007 |
| A closeup of a Hydrangea bush in Shore Acres State Park. | 9/22/2007 |
| And here is the Hydrangea plant when not zoomed in all the way. | 9/22/2007 |
| Here's Adam leaning on a cedar tree in the gardens at Shore Acres State Park | 9/22/2007 |
| It's a little hard to see here, but there are hundreds of sea lions and seals in this photo. They are literally climbing over each other at the base of that large offshore rock in the center of the image. You can see others in the water and on some of the other rocks. | 9/22/2007 |
| Pelicans flying along the coast at Shore Acres State Park. | 9/22/2007 |
| This was the one photo we managed to get of a whale. We saw numerous whales from Cape Arago, but because of the lag between when you snap the photo and when the camera actually takes the picture, this was the only photo that came even close to capturing the whale above the surface. Check out the videos I've got on my site for some much better shots of the whales we saw that day. | 9/22/2007 |
| In case it's not obvious from the picture, here we are in Cape Arago State Park, a little bit north of Bandon. | 9/22/2007 |
| Here's a nice beach at the southern end of Cape Arago State Park. | 9/22/2007 |
| One more shot of Cape Arago State Park. | 9/22/2007 |
| Here is a hook embedded into a rock on the beach. In the distance you can see the Bandon lighthouse. | 9/23/2007 |
| Here's Adam doing what he love best on the coast - "Taunting the Ocean". He loves to walk right up to the edge of the water, and then have the waves chase him back. And then repeat again and again. | 9/23/2007 |
| The lighthouse in Bandon. with Adam walking along the beach. | 9/23/2007 |
| The mist on the Bandon beach. | 9/23/2007 |
| This is NOT the famous Face Rock in Bandon, but it's another rock that certainly does resemble a face. | 9/23/2007 |
| Adam watching a wave come crashing through the surf in Bandon | 9/23/2007 |
| A nice shot of the surf in Bandon. | 9/23/2007 |
| A starfish with numerous sea anemones as well. | 9/23/2007 |
| At Dean Creek Elk Viewing Area on the way home we saw these elk. | 9/24/2007 |
| There were harbor seals, and other sea mammals such as sea lions. I believe this was a harbor seal. | 10/21/2004 |
| On top of some of the bluffs, some strange nodules had formed. I don't really understand how the formed like nodules, certainly some result of the erosional forces at play. | 10/21/2004 |
| We recently spent a weekend on the southern Oregon Coast in Bandon. A few miles north of Bandon is a very cool park - Shore Acres State Park. Here's a shot of the bluffs that overlook the ocean. | 10/21/2004 |
| Here's another view in the opposite direction. In the lower left hand corner you can just see the edge of a beach that has a trail leading down to. It's the only place in the park with relatively serene water, as the next few shots will demonstrate. | 10/21/2004 |
| The surf comes in, pounds the coastline, and even on a relatively calm day as this was, generates huge splashes, well above the height of the bluffs. | 10/21/2004 |
| Here's another big splash. | 10/21/2004 |
| And one more. I'm guessing the cliffs to be about 75 feet high, so the spray was reaching as high as 100 feet on the largest waves. I want to come back here during a winter storm to really see the power of the ocean. | 10/21/2004 |
| Here's a good one. | 10/21/2004 |
| Can you tell I was impressed by the waves? This may have been the best photo, I was pretty pleased with how well they came out. | 10/21/2004 |
| On the way back from Bandon, we passed this scenic viewpoint from 101 looking inland. I don't recall exactly where this was. | 10/22/2004 |