Sweet Creek Falls

It started out as a swimming expedition, but as it turned out we just ended up hiking. Sweet creek falls is a bit inland from the Oregon coast, and it is such a neat, sweet, little place to hike! The trail is very bushy… no poison oak but lots of nettles that I took care to avoid brushing up against.

The whole hike is a sequence of little cascades and pools. I find them very hard to capture on film. (or is that pixels?)

Among the many wonderful plants we saw were some mysterious orange berries, and bright purple foxgloves. I didn’t realize they grew wild like this!

At the end of the trail is the waterfall. It’s very pretty and misty. We were astonished at how many inchworms were crawling around on the moss near it.

It was such a pleasant day, though not hot enough to swim in the icy creek, that we decided to drive the rest of the way to the beach. But it was not our lucky day. Odd, that our best times at the beach in the past year have been in December in California and on MLK jr. day in Oregon. It was cold, and with a harsh wind that blew sand into our ears and sticky mist into our hair.