After attending the national animal rights conference in Los
Angeles in 2003, I went south to the Mexican border to check out San Diego.
Strategically located two hours south of Los Angeles, this pretty city of sun,
surf and yacht harbors seems the closest American equivalent to Perth, Western
Australia - my long-lost home. Eventually I want to settle there for nine months
of the year and head to Perth or the Australian Sunshine Coast during the
northern winter :)
Way too soon, however, it was time to head North, waaaaaaaaay
north, to Seattle, just south of Vancouver and the Canadian border, to start
work for the Northwest Animal Rights Network. I drove the Pacific Coast Highway
the entire length of the coast, sleeping, as usual, in the car. One day out from
my destination, I came across this beautiful near-deserted beach in Oregon,
where the sun was just about to set … The next morning I found another deserted
beach, strangely covered in fog. The Oregon coast is beautiful and rocky
although the fog is very weird to an Australian – it must be a cold weather
thing.
Misty beach.
Beach sunset.
Sunset rock.
Clifftop house.
This shot is near-identical to the beaches of my home city of Perth, Western Australia, and will always powefully tug at my heartstrings.
Our beaches generally don’t have rocks like this, nor cliffs.
