2021 Odyssey Resumed – Day 9 – Oswald State Park, Oregon

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Jim Reed
Ozzie’s namesake park at six months and one day.
Proud parents.
Ozzie sporting Grandpa Jimbo hair.
The hike down is similar to a Pacific Northwest rainforest. Wait, it IS a Pacific Northwest rainforest.
Big trees automatically split themselves when blocking paths.
Intrepid explorers.
Wobbly bridge.
Notice how trees also auto-separate when blocking drainage.
Tree growing out of a “nursing log”.
All drainage leads to the Pacific.
Finally reaching the coast after an exhausting 15-minute death-march through the forest.
Logjam in cove.
Tuffs and siltstones contain volcanic bombs (see enlargement below).
Volcanic bomb embedded within basaltic tuff (ash).
Southern edge of cove.
Another explorer wrestles with a sea snake – or maybe it’s “bullwhip kelp”.
Blinded by the light.
Three generations.
Stump underside.
Gravel/sand delta.
Big breakers.
Alternating siltstones and tuffs (altered to clay). Smuggler Cove Formation – Oligocene – Miocene (33.9 – 5.3my)
Stacks – erosional remnants left behind as shoreline retreats to the east.
Waterfall along northern edge of cove.
Beachcomber.
Beachcomber and basaltic stacks.
Basaltic laterites.
Southern view from pullout on return trip. Town along shoreline is Manzanita, Oregon.
Happy campers.
Check out the mussels …
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