Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area is a BLM managed resource just north of Newport, Oregon. Attractions includes an Interpretive Center, extensive natural tidepools, manmade tidepools, hiking trails, and Yaquina Head Lighthouse.
Agate Beach is just south of the headland. The sandy beach slopes gently out to sea, so the surf breaks and rebreaks over a long distance. Late in the afternoon one has the opportunity to photograph mare's tales off the tops of the waves as well as the sunlight shining through the waves.
Here, a douglas fir shaped by the wind and salt spray somehow manages to maintain a toehold in a very challenging location.
Ash Creek Images
Photographs of the West by Doug Gorsline
Wave, Tree, & Headland; Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, Newport, OR.
