Rue at Heceta Head: The Ghost Story That Still Haunts Florence, Oregon
At Heceta Head, the fog creeps in. It slips between the spruce trees, curls around the old keeper’s house. It presses pale fingers against the upstairs…
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THE OREGON COAST GUIDE
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At Heceta Head, the fog creeps in. It slips between the spruce trees, curls around the old keeper’s house. It presses pale fingers against the upstairs…
Read story →The Oregon Coast has a unique silence. It appears after sunset. The Pacific Ocean swallows the sun and the silence is heavy. The tide's rhythm is…
Read story →The Oregon Coast is a place of majestic beauty, where the rugged Pacific meets ancient, windswept forests. But when the famous coastal fog rolls in, the…
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Travel photography via Wikimedia Commons: Sunset Bay hero, family beach, Oregon Dunes, Munson Creek Falls, Heceta Head Lighthouse, Cape Perpetua, Sunset Bay at low tide, coastal sunset, packing flatlay, and NOAA gray whale.