58. Sunset Coast - Nehalum River
58. Sunset Coast - Nehalum River
*puffffffffff* /blows dust off
*cough* *cough* *hack* *cough*
*PUFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF*
Alrighty then.
Let's call it like it is: 2014 sucked. 
Now that that crap excuse for a year is out of the way, let's start this one off a little better and post some stuff. As you may have noticed, i finished my final map, named after this CJ, and uploaded it some time ago.
I know i've got it around here somewhere.... ah yes.
This is likely to be the last map i'll ever use, as i designed it to have a little bit of everything. And it's so flippin huge it's impossible to finish. Maybe.
But anyways we're going to start out in the very bottom left corner of it.
Yes, that's really the population of the region right now. And yes, that's especially pathetic considering i started working on this map when i finished it (about 11 months ago) well before i released it. Such a fantastic year last year was. Despite the population i've got more than what you see here done; i've been laying out the transit networks of the urban center and rendering and treeing some large sections.
But we were talking about the pacific coast. The Sunset Coast, and this time we're focusing on the city of Nehalum, where the Nehalum River drains into the vast Sea of Storms.
The Nehalum River itself is pretty small. It's merely a small drainage flowing down from the Windward Hills, like all the other rivers along this stretch of coast.
The River is only a dozen or so miles long, and the length of the valley that's flat is farmed just like the coastline.
The city of Nehalum isn't especially notable for anything. Although it is the largest town south of Half Moon Bay, the reason for it's existence is solely that it was a very desirable location to the early settlers, being on a small flat of land high enough above the sea to provide a nice view (and be safe from tsunamis) and it had a constant supply of fresh water flowing through.
The modern town is pretty typical.
As is the surrounding coastal areas. Just a quiet place to live and work next to the sea, without the modern distractions of a huge metropolis.
And when summer turns to fall the native folliage turns spectacularly.
It's like that all along the coast.
As anyone who lives along this stretch of the sea will tell you; august may be the tourist season, but sunny beach days in september are to die for.
Hwy 1 along the coast crossing the Nehalum River through town.
And that's the city of Nehalum, along the Sunset Coast of the Ring of Fire.
So welcome back everyone. Not sure what i'm going to do next, but we'll have to make sure it comes a lot quicker than this one did.
~cheers.
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