Guest Photographer 5

Every summer, just about, the woman I married and divorced, who is Japanese, comes to see me in the summer, and every time, we drive down to North Bend or Coos Bay to see a friend of her grandmother’s. In fact, K*, my friend, and former wife, Home-stayed here in Oregon years before I moved here in 1987.  I just realized this summer that she has been here, or first came here, long before I ever came here, the first time being in 1985.

Since 1985, the second time I came here, when we first came here together, we’ve been driving down to Coos Bay.  Now that the family friend has gotten old, she lives in a Home in North Bend, on the southern Coast of Oregon, and this year, like every other year, we drove down there to see her.  This series of Guest Photographer pictures are from K*’s camera, and these are the first views of the coast we had this time.  US 101, where it meets OR 18, is quite some distance inland from the sea, but angles down to the coast again:

It was a very grey summer, both on the coast, where the weather rolls in off the vast Pacific Ocean, and in Portland, where I live.

We called "June" "Junuary", it was so gray here n Portland.

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This is, if you know the west coast, looking south – the land is on your left.

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This shot looks directly west… towards Japan.  I used to really love "The West", and, growing up in SoCal, I never thought of it as "The West" because SoCal is the leading edge of culture change here, and everything was "too new".  I ended up going so far west I ended up in the Far East – I lived in Japan about six years.

If I could plug  USB cable into my head. I could show you such sights!  US 101 southbound (and Northbound, along the Olympic Penninsula in Washington State) is a beautiful road, one I have never become tired of.  Our next stop after this one was at Depot Bay, the "World’s Smallest Harbour".  If you’ve been there you know, and if you’ve ever seen the 1975 movie "One flew over the coocoo’s nest", you have seen Depot Bay too – an important scene in the movie takes place in Depot Bay:

This shot looks north, along the coastline at Depot Bay, and here we saw the sun for the first time that day.

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This is looking south.

I took more pictures here than she did, but this is her time, not mine.

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And this is looking directly west.

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an style=”font-size: small”>A little closer:

(I took much the same shots with my Nikon and the colors of them are more pleasing than this Casio’s rendition of colors)

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Although, I guess I can’t complain – that camera saw me too:

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It saw this seabird too, who looks so Calm.

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cont’d