FOG-CAPPED TILLAMOOK HEAD, OREGON
“...from this point I beheld the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed..."
William Clark, Lewis and Clark Expedition (1806)
William Clark’s words are as true today as they were two centuries ago when he gazed down the Oregon Coast from Tillamook Head, Oregon. Nestled in Ecola State Park between today’s resort towns of Seaside and Cannon Beach, Tillamook Head is a wilderness oasis. Bugling elk roam the old-growth forest, bald eagles soar along the steep cliffs, and massive seastacks rise majestically from the ocean mist.
NOTE: I made this photograph in 2002 from a narrow cliff about two-hunded feet above the beach. I returned to this general location in 2007 and found that the cliff had been severely eroded and is no longer accessible. Thus this composition is no longer possible.
© TERRY NATHAN
