Camping on Manhattan Beach

Saturday saw a quickly planned camping trip to Manhattan beach on the coast of Oregon with some friends. The beach was unlike anything that I’d ever seen - driftwood as far as the eye could see up the coast, at least 600 feet in width from the coast further back to the dunes. Saying driftwood is a bit misleading as there were whole trees of considerable size interwoven with one another and stuck in the sand. We built this fantastic amphitheater-like structure to shelter our fire from the wicked winds. I have a few more pictures from this visit but I liked this one best - it paints a very bleak and hopeless portrait of a one living forest.