THE OREGON COAST
by Donna Ikenberry

My nose was scrunched and my mouth full of dirt as I lifted myself up off the forest floor. Quickly I searched my pack for handi-wipes, wiping the last trace of dirt from my face as a gray- haired couple happened by. I got up, smiled sheepishly, and said with a bit of embarrassment, “I fell; it always happens when I’m too busy looking at the beautiful scenery.”

They laughed and agreed that the Oregon coast is fall-on-your-face beautiful. No doubt, all 363 miles are worth seeing, feeling, touching, and knowing.

Much of Oregon’s coast offers seastacks or offshore rocks, caretakers protecting the mostly rugged coastline from the onslaught of countless waves. Waves are nature’s music, sometimes subtle, barely a whisper, while much of the time the waves are pounding, invasive, but in a good way. Sea lions sometimes add to the symphony, barking out their daily repertoire, regardless of what they are doing – swimming in the surf, hanging out on low offshore rocks, breeding or calving...

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