Cape Lookout : Day Two

We already posted a bit about the hike we did on the second day of our stay, but after we got back to the cabin it was still early and we couldn't stay cooped up indoors when we had 50 degree temperatures outside! So we went for a long walk down the beach. I discovered that my digital camera actually does black and white fairly decently, so even though the film camera that I brought along turned out to have a dead battery (rookie mistake!), I'm pretty happy with how the digital black and white turned out. Here are a few from the hike that I took in black and white - - 

It's funny, because I wouldn't think that black and white would be ideal for taking photos of a super green forest, but some of these photos actually capture the atmosphere better than the color photographs I took. Sometimes, color is overwhelming! I guess that's why you start out taking black and white photography classes and drawing and painting in black and white. It's easier to see the details of the forest when you aren't distracted by all of its colors. Anyway, on to the beach photos (color and b&w) - -

The beach stretches almost as far as you can see - the park has a long spit that shelters a bay - it's in our hiking book, but it was marked as "difficult", and since we'd just done a hike we figured we'd just walk down it until we got tired and then head back. We were lucky with the tides, and there was a lot of flat, hard sand to walk on. 

We returned on what we thought was the campground trail but what turned out to be a service road (oops). We did get a nice view of the campgrounds, though, and even picked out the spots we think might be best when we come back in the summer! The tent sites are even closer to the beach than our cabin was. 

Another fire to end another lovely day - a tiring day, but a good kind of tired! 
One last picture, one that shows something I didn't even know happened until we moved here - - 

In Oregon (and all over the PNW), trees grow out of other trees!