The whole time out on Southwest, we'd refer to our mantra: "we're on a mission from God" to see the ocean.
Of course that's the famous Blues Brothers line.
We got there and found South Beach, Newport and watched dinner come wrastle with the breakwater.
We picked Newport, OR for the scenic beauty down south and the rainy-day opportunities of May at the coast. This overlook was south of Yachats.
At a wayside in Yachats, an unchoreographed bit of ballet.
Gov. Patterson, you've got a lovely beach.
Behind the motel there was some major art going on at Oregon Coast Glassworks. Meet Bill Murphy.
Bill is following the design which made the above.
And he gets to see the colors in the clear glass along the way.
The perfect pursuit for a chilly climate. Wouldn't want their utility bills though.
When the glass is 'just so,' you can make carapace.
By you I mean if you're Bill.
South Beach in Newport offers an hands-on science experience: the Mark Hatfield Science Center.
Honeycomb Rockfish et. al.
On the north side of the Newport passage where you saw the fishing boat enter, there is a lighthouse which was decommissioned only years after its commissioning. One may see the structure, its period furnishings and chamber pots.
Forgive my enormous guffaw, but we employ this quaintness at our house. In this here modern era.
In some overly modern burbs, I hear you can be penalized for capturing the water. Now that's crazy.
Our vacation sucked so bad that even Cape Foulweather wouldn't cooperate.
The better to shoot the flora.
We took the slow road to Tillamook. Around Gammon Launch, which proved to be the classic stumbled-upon, I caught this.
At Oceanside, you see the 3 Arch Rocks that it takes Photoshop stitching to show. 
Please go to the Flickr link in the image and slow scroll the largest available.
In Rockaway Town.
They have a, well, a rock
There's an Arcadia Beach. One could not make it up.
And it has clams
You're heading back to your cheesy rental (another great band name) and cherish each footstep away from this. 
Goodbye, ocean.
Hello, mouth of the Columbia
Hello and goodbye.
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1. Newport Breakwater
210mm
F 13.0
1/500 sec.
ISO 200
2. Yachats View South
120mm
F 25.0
1/200 sec.
ISO 500
3. In Formation
210mm
F 5.6
1/4000 sec.
ISO 500
4. Patterson Beach Sentinel
210mm
F 5.6
1/2000 sec.
ISO 200
5. Oregon Coast Glassworks
100mm
F 5.0
1/160 sec.
ISO 1000
6. Gallery Turtle
75mm
F 4.5
1/125 sec.
ISO 640
7. The Blower's Art
70mm
F 4.5
1/125 sec.
ISO 500
8. Making Carapace
210mm
F 5.6
1/250 sec.
ISO 1000
9. Honeycomb Rockfish
50mm
F 1.7
1/80 sec.
ISO 800
10. Cistern Sign
210mm
F 22.0
1/320 sec.
ISO 1000
11. Cape Foulweather
140mm
F 29.0
1/160 sec.
ISO 1600
12. Foulweather Flora
135mm
F 5.6
1/500 sec.
ISO 200
13. Curves
90mm
F 5.0
1/4000 sec.
ISO 250
14. Stiched Panorama 3 Arches
70mm
F 16.0
1/320 sec.
ISO 200
15. Rockaway
210mm
F 16.0
1/4000 sec.
ISO 640
16. Arcadia Beach
70mm
F 22.0
1/125 sec.
ISO 400
17. Cannon Beach
70mm
F 10.0
1/500 sec.
ISO 200
18. 101 Astoria
70mm
F 22.0
1/125 sec.
ISO 800
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Awesome
Glorious
Breath taking.
D - I could blog a whole post about the little things that didn't go all the way to great, but the overall feeling is a rewarding, refreshing, exhausting whirlwind of a fortnight. We turned in the rental at Sea-Tac and spent a few more days with friends across the Sound from downtown. I processed a couple of panoramas yesterday and they'll be part of the fifth and final "level." Don't you love how for a few days after leaving the coast, you still smell good air and hear waves breaking?