Fish head, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads. Bill and I went to check out the Charleston Seafood Festival on the 20th. The festival itself was pretty lame. They had a total of about 5 booths, none of which had seafood. They did however have beer, hotdogs, and scones, so I guess that covers the ‘festival’ part. And I suppose since they had a kiddy pool with fish in it and they hosted this on the pier that covers the seafood 
part, I guess. We spent about 5 minutes at the actual festival then went and walked the marina and took pictures of the boats and stuff. The fish heads are the results of this gentleman who was cleaning part of the Tuna catch that his 
boat was selling straight off the boat. I had no clue Bill had taken this picture until I was flipping through them and found my self eye to eye with them. The fisherman was 
attracting a lot of attention from the local wildlife looking for a free lunch. It was a lot of fun to watch the seals and sea lions just hang out and 
wait for the fisherman to through a bit over the railing. Then to watch all the birds try to scavenge that bit before the sea lion got to it. This guy in particular was the big dog. No other seals would go close enough to steal his lunch, this guy was huge! 
After watching the feeding frenzy for a bit we continued on and walked
the docks of the marina looking at all the different boats. Bill got some really nice shots of the marina. There were so many seagulls is almost impossible to take pictures without them in it. Not that we wanted shots without the birds, I think they really make the shot.Bill also took the time to snap some shots of the seagulls for me, I think they are pretty. It’s fun to see how many different varieties there are just in this small part of the
country. The birds where so curious about Bill they just kept turning their heads to watch 
him, I think they were waiting for him to drop some food. We were after all, at this point, standing on the little pier with the cleaning tables. So maybe they weren’t so curious about Bill, but about why he didn’t have food.Another common site for this area are blue herons, snowy egrets, and pelicans. We don’t currently have any shots of
the herons or egrets, but this guy was enjoying a swim and some flight time in the harbor. The pictures don’t show it very well, but he was absolutely huge. We got 
to watch him take off and land a couple of different times. We got shots of one take off, but he wasn’t close enough for them to really turn out very well, even with us shooting in a relatively large format. It was really something to see.We had a good time that day, but it had nothing to do with the seafood festival. We’ve been having a good time on the Southern Oregon Coast. It’s been a bit chilly out here especially when the fog rolls in, but that’s ok. I just had to dig out my sweaters and jeans. I’ll be posting more soon about our trip to see the New Carissa, the trip out to Cape Blanco, and To Cape Perpetua. This will all be posted in the next week or so as I have time to go through the pictures we took.
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