Nice tour, thanks.
I was always amazed by the size of the driftwood all along the WA/OR coast.

Really nice pictures! And thanks for the commentary explaining them.

How many people in your group? Just the two of you? It seemed like there were lots of people in many of your shots. Were you just walking behind another family?

Thanks everyone, it was a great trip and very beautiful, as is all of this area.

There were just the two of us in our "group", but the beach was very popular, people walking on it ahead of us and behind. The people in the shots you see, except me, are all strangers. I saw lots of families with little kids, carrying them sometimes, babies and little walkers. That would have shortened my trip for sure. The soft sand and loose cobbles were tough walking in spots.

Regarding beach logs--it's true they can be dangerous, even these. There are similar signs at the trailhead about the danger of logs in the surf. None of these logs were close to the surf, not by a long shot. I respect the power of water, it was moving water that put these logs where they are after all. But these logs were over here and the water was over there. Here are a couple shots with some explanation.

Tight crop. The arrow indicates where I was standing. It's a ways down the beach from me in this shot. The figures just to the left of the arrow are about where the log is. They're also useful for indicating scale. As you keep looking further to the left, you can see the extent of the waves as the beach slopes downward to the water. There's even a young person playing in the water, also useful for scale. Please note, this is taken at high tide. The bottom of the log at the end nearest the water is about 6 to 10 feet above the surface of the water. It would have to be a tsunami to wet this log at this time, much less move it.
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Wide shot from which the tight crop was taken. It give another perspective of how far this log is from the water. It also give a good view of the steepness of the beach in this area. I should note this is when I was on the log, not the next morning when the tide was out (next shot).
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Kind of the same shot, next day, different hour, low(er) tide. The water is low and the logs are far from the water.
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I appreciate your concern Lamplighter, thank you. There was no danger in this shot from water moving this log. Falling off, sure. But doesn't really qualify as a "beach log" under these conditions.

Zen, I wouldn't have touched that red X with YOUR pointer it was so gross. Just ew. Ew and LOL. :lol2:

This thread has been downright inspiring V... well done

Thank you, sir!

OT, Do Aussies say Wicked ironically or is it in common use?

Wicked is used in some rural areas of the north, but I haven't heard it used much since I was a tad. (sometime in the 60s and 70s)

I think "wicked" is rarely used in it's proper meaning, but does get some use as "awesome" amongst extreme sport show-off types, and thus a little bit of ironic use as I practiced here.

Great tour V!

"Wicked" was in very common use in Maine in the 80s. All ages used it. It meant "very."
"I have a wicked bad headache." "The draft in that wood stove is wicked strong."

But something that was simply "wicked" was awesome.

I heard wicked used a lot. Usually by people who were looking right at me.

Right before "BURN HIM!", eh?

We used it that way in NEPA as well. The highest form was "wicked tit." We were teenage boys after all.

No, right before, "Run, run for your lives!"

A weird saying in Maine in the '80's was "Shoppie" at least that's what it sounded like to my ears. A hood (a freak, a pot-head, a "bad guy") was called a Shoppie.

My BIL thinks it was just the Maine accent and the word was 'sharpie' like, "Oh, he's a sharpie" which is a throwback insult from, like, the fifties? I dunno. My cousin used to say it whenever some dude in a hoodie and jean jacket combo came around. "He's a shoppie, stay away from him,"