Robert has a cousin Billy, an Uncle Billy, had an Uncle Bill and a great-Uncle Bill! No Bills or Billys in my family.

It looks like snow, but it is sea foam, whipped up by the wind.

We tried every path we found to reach the ocean beach from Heceta Dunes Area, but again, you can’t get there from here! The alternating forest, pond and dune landscape created what looked like direct routes to the beach but invariably we entered thick brushy forests that might harbor bears and bobcats (and ticks too)!

Those big trees DO fall in the forest! This one recently broke in a big wind storm. I say you might not have heard it over the sound of the howling winds!!