We stopped at Lincoln City on the way home for a bit of a walk in the sun. Lincoln City is about halfway down the northern Oregon coast, and the day before we'd been wondering where all the seals were. Apparently they were here, basking on this sand bank! We think these are harbour seals since that's the most common type in that area.

Lincoln City beach is quite wide, and collects a lot of drift wood. This piece is a huge tree trunk, which has either been on the beach long enough to be used for hammering staples into or had a strange life before it arrived here.

The Pacific Ocean and, somewhere in the water near the beach, a seal. We saw a couple of them playing the waves and the long ripple in the centre of the picture is one just diving, since I pressed the shutter button a fraction of a second too slowly.

Stones on the beach. I just liked the colours of this.

... however this small stone is destined to be skipped rather ineptly across the water. I used to be good at that, but that was twenty years ago on a nice flat river!

Just a nice beach scape. That headland is the same beach that the seals were basking on.