We manage to make at least one trip a year to the Oregon coast and it never disappoints. Springtime visits are my favorite. You never know what the late winter storms will have churned up on the beach. The weather is often unpredictable but we seem to always manage at least a bit of sun here and there in between the wind and the rain (and sometimes hail).

Sunset at the Needles & Haystack rock

Pink Tufted Hydroids

Sponge on mussel shell

Striped Shore Crab

Moonglow Anemone

Piddock Clam Complex

Purple Ochre Star

Orange Ochre Star

Moonglow Anemone

Whelk eggs

Gulls

Rufus tipped nudibranch

Big Skate Egg Case

Velella velella

Rufus tipped nudibranch laying eggs

Pygmy rock crab

Opalescent nudibranch party

Velella velella

Aggregating anemones at night