Smelt Sands Beach

There's only one beach like this on the Oregon Coast. At Smelt Sands, the steep gradient of the beach makes for pounding surf, even when the ocean is fairly calm. The beach itself is a gravel comprised of rock, shell, wood, and other crushed matter the sea has continuously tumbled for eons. I knelt down to get this shot and almost a week later I still have a nasty scrape on my knee from the gravel. Not a place you want to face plant.

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