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Back in 1995, Before Juli and I were engaged, we took that Oregon Lighthouse trip I've mentioned in previous posts. One of the discoveries we made was a recovery effort at Yaquina Head in Newport.

There was a played out rock quarry at the side of the the point, just by the water. The Bureau of Land Management was given a challenge: find a way to make use of the hole in the ground. find a way to recover it. They came up with a great idea. They built an interactive tidal pool. It had an overlook. It had elevated Tide Pools. It had paths running through it that people would wade through when the tide was low. The paths made it wheelchair accessible, so if folks didn't mind the wheelchairs getting wet with salt water...

One of the B.L.M.'s goals was to record how nature would reclaim the land. When we saw it back in 1995 they had just opened it up to the sea. It looked like this. I took this shot with my 35 mm Minolta and 400 ISO film.

So here we are, 14 years later. Yes, It took Juli and I 14 years to return. Nature has done her thing. She decided, with ocean currents, that this was a great place for Lots and Lots of sand.