A Sometimes Terrible Beauty -- Devil's Cauldron, Oregon

Originally shared by Shawn McClure

A Sometimes Terrible Beauty -- Devil's Cauldron, Oregon
“The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and salt-waters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.” 
-- Carl Safina

This is a view of Devil's Cauldron on the northwestern coast of Oregon, just a few miles south of Cannon Beach. It was in that small copse of trees on the crest of that bluff where I photographed this garter snake: https://goo.gl/hs1Xg7.

Standing above the cauldron, you can hear a constant low booming as the surf comes into the cul-de-sac and crashes against the cliff walls on all sides. It' quite a wild place. :-)

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