Yesterday and today were pretty story days on the central Oregon coast. We experienced sustaind winds of 40-50 miles per hour, and gusts up to 80 mph. I was woken up a lot during the night by wind and rain, and was able to watch a lot of the storm from my beach house window. This morning I wend out for coffee and drove down to the south jetty to check out the storm waves. I found the seagull staging area. There were hundreds of birds setting in the parking lot riding out the storm. Most of the birds were seagulls but a number of them were pelicans. Just as I was taking some pictures someone pulled up and let their dog out of the car. The dog went hog wild chasing the seagulls around, and I got some more great bird pictures.
In the afternoon I met up with a friend and we deiced to explore the Oregon Coast Aquarium. I love this aquarium and have visited many times over the years. It's a pretty good opportunity to get some fun pictures if you have the patents and the critters will hold kind of still. These are the three I took that I really liked.
Rock fish in a reef
Pacific Sea Nettle Jelly Fish
Pacific Giant Octopus
I was especially excited to get a semi clear picture of that octopus. The octopus doesn't come out of his hole very often, and he was moving around the cage pretty fast, I took maybe 10 pictures, and this was the only one that you could even tell what was in it.
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