We spent four days at Canon Beach in a great motel near the mouth of Ecola Creek. Lewis and Clark traded with Killamook Indians andfeasted on herds of elk in this area. Unlike the former, the later have been allowed to stick around.

We were again treated to summer-like weather. We took many beach walks with the dog and found many great live and dead birds.

This is the first intact fork-tailed storm petrel we have found. They are nocturnal and shy, so this is about the best look we can get.

We visited many sites such as hug point, where Sarah kept with the theme.

On the way home, we stopped to pay our respects to the Klootchie Creek Giant Spruce. The tree broke during the big wind storm on December 2nd. Much of the stump remains, and a few needles and cones still cling to the only branch left.

Now it’s back to work for us until the next vacation in September… Max’s biology blog can be found here