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May 2005
© Bill Corner
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Image 0: Peter Skene bridge on State Highway 97 in Oregon
Image 1: Me on the afore mentioned historic bridge
Image 2: Some great columnar basalt on the side of the gorge that the historic bridge crosses
Image 3: Lake Billy Chinook - a reservoir used as a water sports venue. Anne went swimming in here. I didn't (obviously!)
Image 4: A sign on a Little League pitch in Bend. Obviously some parents get over excited...
Image 5: Map of the Crater Lake Nat. Park. We lunched at Cloud Cap, and climbed Mt. Scott.
Image 6: Anne on the Rim Drive
Image 7: Crater Lake from Cloud Cap
Image 8: Mt. Scott and Crater Lake, Oregon
Image 9: Mt. Scott
Image 10: Anne oat the summit of Mt Scott. The building is an old fire watch tower.
Image 11: The view of Crater Lake from Mt Scott. Wizard Island is visible in the centre of the picture.
Image 12: The pumice desert. This is at the foot of the Crater Lake massif. It was formed thousands of years ago during a previous eruption...
Image 13: A white bark pine on the exposed slopes of Mt. Scott.
Image 14: A small lake in the Umpqua river above the Clearwater falls.
Image 15: The Clearwater falls.
Image 16: A huge (leaky) wooden pipe at the base of the Toketee Falls
Image 17: The upper reaches of the Umpqua river.
Image 18: Toketee Falls in the Umpqua river. Note the basalt columns!. Note the basalt columns!
Image 19: Me at the beach at Bandon with the Face Rock and Kittens Rocks in the background.Legend tells of a woman drowned by an evil god, who then threw her five kittens out to sea...
Image 20: A line of driftwood on Banden beach
Image 21: Anne in front of a huge piece of driftwood (that's the one in front of that large lump of stone!)
Image 22: Me in the middle of one of the largest expanses of coastal dunes systems in the world - on the Oregon coast.
Image 23: me as Lawrence of Arabia - but he probably got better weather!
Image 24: We thought we could get to the ocean - except that we had about 8 miles to go...
Image 25: Darlingtonia californica - an insectivorous plant - in it's natural habitat.
Image 26: Darlingtonia californica
Image 27: Tsunami warnings at Lincoln City
Image 28: Me paddling at Cape Lookout - not swimming - ever!
Image 29: Lighthouse at Cape Lookout. A great whale watching site, just not in August...
Image 30: The Octopus Tree at Cape Meares.
A Sitka spruce that has grown in a sheltered spot on the exposed cliff top.
It grew horizontally in the sheltered hollow for a while before venturing vertically into the elements.
Image 31: A tree showing the krumholz effect at Cape Perpetua
Image 32: Cannon Beach from Tilamook Head
This was supposed to be the most spectacular view along the entire Oregon coast. Pity about the weather!
Image 33: The Astoria Column - celebrating the Lewis and Clarke's epic journey to the mouth of the Columbia River.
Image 34: The view from the top of the Astoria Column
Image 35: The bridge over the Columbia at Astoria. Supposed to break some construction record or other...
Image 36: A huge tanker - one of many that wander up and down the Columbia river. Well, it is a large river...
Image 37: Some of the grand buildings in Astoria. The one on the left is Flavel's House - Flavel was a rich ship captain/entrepreneur in the late 1800's who built his own grand house in the Victorian style (but with more restraint). It's now a museum.
Image 38: Astoria even had it's own Bates Motel!
Image 39: The crater in Mt. St. Helens formed during the eruption on May 18th 1982. The new magma dome in the middle of the crater is still growing.
Image 40: Mt. St. Helens, Washington
Image 41: Fallen logs (those wee white lines!) on the slopes opposite the crater. All the logs felled during the eruption that were on accessible slopes were removed. These were left as they were unreachable.
Image 42: Coldwater Lake. This lake didn't exist before the 1982 eruption. It was formed by ash and logs damming the valley.
Image 43: Anne at Coldwater lake
Image 44: Flowers on the slopes of the old blast zone. The area hasn't been re-forested as it has been designated a National Volcanic Monument.
Image 45: Map of the Olympic National Park
Image 46: Marymere Falls
Image 47: Anne and a large bracket fungi (left to right - obviously)
Image 48: Anne dipping her foot into the (extremely smelly) hot springs at Olympic Springs.
Image 49: Mt. Olympus (A bit hazy I'm afraid - so we didn't see Zeus or any of his entourage)
Image 50: Some red alders. The silver appearance of the bark is due to a covering of lichen known locally as Fairy Barf.
Image 51: Some more red alders
Image 52: Large burls on some coastal Sitka spruces. Caused by a virus and proximity to the sea apparently.
Image 53: The largest red cedar in the world! And the only photo me and Anne together
Image 54: The largest Sitka spruce in the world... Over 200 feet high.
Image 55: Anne in front of a mutant tree stump
Image 56: A black beetle gratefully scoffing a lump of avocado we dropped. Even it's contingent of mites (those brown blobs on its head) came down for a feed.
Image 57: A hairy tree above a babbling brook
Image 58: The temperate rainforest
Image 59: The temperate rainforest
Image 60: The temperate rainforest
Image 61: A nurse log - a tree falls and as it decays it provides a nursery for growing seedlings. As these seedlings mature they span the decaying log, and when the log eventually rots away a line of trees with buttress effect roots is left. This picture shows the line of mature trees.(Inset: a close up of the decaying nurse log)
Image 62: A new nurse log - spruce seedlings growing in the moss on the log.
Image 63: A close up of the club moss that carpets everything
Image 64: The Ho River
Image 65: A tranquil pool in the Ho Valley
Image 66: A fallen cedar 90 foot long - with Anne and me at either end...
Image 67: Lunchtime - Fresh rolls and toms, with watercress, mayo and chilli pepper cheese; with fresh strawbs for after. We were certainly roughing it!
Image 68: Mossy phone box
Image 69: Our car - a Mitsubishi Eclipse. Looks very sporty - handled like a heavily pregnant dog.
Image 70: Great ice cream - and service! :)
Image 71: I've always wanted Teva feet!
