Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, Oregon
One of my favorite locations we visited at the Oregon coast last week was Yaquina Head with its lighthouse and rocky sea stacks all around. It is a great place for bird watching and offers many different angles for having some photography fun.
Colony Rock is a great habitat for thousands of seabirds. We saw Common Murres, Pelagic Cormorants, lots of Western Gulls, and some other species.
Western Gull on a rocky cliff
The lighthouse guides ships and their supplies along the west coast since the light was first lit on August 20, 1873.
View to the North Coast from Yaquina Head