Sunset Cove

Sunset Cove, outside of Coos Bay, Oregon.

This was a semi-intentional stop on the way home from Crescent City, CA. Semi-intentional because we saw pretty clouds in the sky and wanted to take a picture, but we'd never been to the beach in Coos Bay. So we started following the signs to "Sunset Cove" - what better place to shoot a sunset then a place called "Sunset Cove"? Turns out that Sunset Cove is actually aways outside of Coos Bay. So we are following the signs and watching the sky turn more and more colorful and driving faster and faster, all the while hoping that around the next curve or bend would be Sunset Cove. Or, at the very least, that we would find the ocean before dusk. At last, just as the sun was falling below the horizon, we pulled into the Sunset Cove parking lot, hopped out the car, grabbed the camera, hurtled over the driftwood logs between me and the beach and managed to snap a photo (or two or three....) just at the peak of the most intense colors!

Sunset Cove was beautiful and I would love to go back. In case you can't tell from the photo, but the sun sets right between the two sea stacks. It's absolutely amazing!