Single male elk crossing a wetland near a lake

Coffinbury Lake, Ft Stevens State Park, Clatsop Co., OR

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A small crab with yellow claws and blueish legs. It is in an alert defensive posture

_Hemigrapsus oregonensis_ - Ft Stevens State Park, Clatsop Co., OR

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Bunch of kids hanging out on their front porch - Ft Stevens State Park, Clatsop Co., OR

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Western Gull - Ft Stevens State Park, Clatsop Co., OR

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Small plastic frog shaped container with a note inside at the base of a tree

Ducked under some trees off-trail to get out of the rain and stumbled on a cute little geocache

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Chickaree (Douglas Squirrel) - Ft Stevens State Park, Clatsop Co., OR

Our native "pine" squirrel, the one's around here specialize in collecting Sitka Spruce cones.

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Trestle Bay, Ft Stevens State Park, Clatsop Co., OR

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Footprints in Sand, Ft Stevens State Park OR. A lovely park between the Pacific Ocean and the Columbia River. My color camera broke forcing me to shoot all in IR.

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