As much as I had fun at the coast, it was a big learning experience that I hope to never repeat again. After eating lunch at Mo's along the Taft Waterfront in Lincoln City, I went outside and just started snapping pictures of wildlife-mainly seagulls-without first checking my camera settings and making sure the lens was perfectly clean. What resulted was many photos that were extremely overexposed, and when I finally got the exposure to a good-but not prefect-setting, there was too much fuzz or salt spry on the lens that any that could be saved had too much spots on them that they were doomed to be trashed - or at least put on my external hard drive to help me remember to check my settings before taking pictures. Once at Depoe Bay, however, most of the stuff on the lens, whatever it was, had blown off, and I got better pictures. Below are some of my favorites from that day. The first two were salvageable photos that were taken at Taft, while the rest are from Depoe Bay.
In the next photo, I ended up spotting something in the picture that I have never seen before--a waterfall and fish ladder behind the wharf. The next time I go to Depoe Bay by myself, I will have to drive to the back of the bay to get not only a different perspective, but a closer shot of that fish ladder and waterfall.
