Justin Lowery
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Well, we've been on the road for over a week now, with two more to go! It's been an amazing journey, traveling and camping our way up the west coast, camping out on some incredibly scenic beaches and in some fairytale worthy forests! Here's a first image from our 24 day roadtrip up the west coast, through the Pacific Northwest, and on to the Eastern Sierra and Yosemite.
Haystack Rock is no secret. Corporations have been allowed to build massive multimillion dollar resort hotels for the opulent wealthy within feet of it, due to a serious lack of protection of the area and a local government motivated to allow environmental destruction by the lure of tax dollars from the hotel corporations. However, once you get beyond the facade of man's endless corporate greed and short-sighted materialism, nature is as always, awe-inspiring in its quiet majesty.
Haystack Rock is a 235 foot tall intertidal sea stack, one of the tallest of its kind in the world. Due to the beach's rather flat grade, the waves coming in with the tides coat the sand in a highly reflective glassy surface that mirrors the sunset spectacularly, and somehow allows you to forget everything else and just relax in the peaceful moment.
Rather than stay in the absurdly expensive hotels in the area, and separate ourselves from the area's profound natural beauty, we opted to camp for the night in a somewhat secluded forest campground, surrounded by verdant ferns and covered by a canopy of towering coastal hemlock and spruce trees. We awoke after a peaceful night's sleep in the woods to the sounds of songbirds singing in the trees, and a 6 inch banana slug cruising through our campsite, looking for some tasty greens to snack on. And then, it was on to La Push in Washington for more coastal rainforest camping!
You should follow me if you haven't already!
To those of you who have, thank you.
lowerylandscapes.com
Trifecta
Well, we've been on the road for over a week now, with two more to go! It's been an amazing journey, traveling and camping our way up the west coast, camping out on some incredibly scenic beaches and in some fairytale worthy forests! Here's a first image from our 24 day roadtrip up the west coast, through the Pacific Northwest, and on to the Eastern Sierra and Yosemite.
Haystack Rock is no secret. Corporations have been allowed to build massive multimillion dollar resort hotels for the opulent wealthy within feet of it, due to a serious lack of protection of the area and a local government motivated to allow environmental destruction by the lure of tax dollars from the hotel corporations. However, once you get beyond the facade of man's endless corporate greed and short-sighted materialism, nature is as always, awe-inspiring in its quiet majesty.
Haystack Rock is a 235 foot tall intertidal sea stack, one of the tallest of its kind in the world. Due to the beach's rather flat grade, the waves coming in with the tides coat the sand in a highly reflective glassy surface that mirrors the sunset spectacularly, and somehow allows you to forget everything else and just relax in the peaceful moment.
Rather than stay in the absurdly expensive hotels in the area, and separate ourselves from the area's profound natural beauty, we opted to camp for the night in a somewhat secluded forest campground, surrounded by verdant ferns and covered by a canopy of towering coastal hemlock and spruce trees. We awoke after a peaceful night's sleep in the woods to the sounds of songbirds singing in the trees, and a 6 inch banana slug cruising through our campsite, looking for some tasty greens to snack on. And then, it was on to La Push in Washington for more coastal rainforest camping!
You should follow me if you haven't already!
To those of you who have, thank you.
lowerylandscapes.com