For the last four years we have spent the month of February camped at Bastendorf Beach on the Oregon Coast. Coos Bay forms a horseshoe shape that bends around the town aptly named North Bend, and then extends its two legs southward, one on the inland side of the peninsula, one on the seaward side. The seaward end of the horseshoe ends in Charleston, the little fishing village near the South Jetty. Charleston’s wharf accomodates most of the crab and salmon boats in the area, and is home to a large cannery. The South Slough and its wildlife as well as three Oregon State Parks;  Sunset Beach, Shore Acres, and Cape Arago, are located nearby. These pictures come from the many I have taken at Charleston or on the Southern Oregon Coast