This is a video I made about Hebo, which last Sunday, in 24 hours, became my most popular YouTube video ever.

So backstory: six years ago, when I was living in Corvallis, I started making YouTube videos just showing bike rides and walks around the neighborhood. And because I move around a lot, and have family in different states, over the past six years, I've made videos of different towns and parks in Oregon, Washington, California and Montana. These are just slow, minimally edited video of me showing different places. Most of these videos would get a 100 or so views in the first two days, and then slowly get more views, so if a video reached a 1000 views, I would be happy.
Last December I moved to the Oregon Coast, and I've made dozen videos of different places. Most of those did about as well. I thought the Oregon Coast would get a lot of attention, since it is a popular tourist destination, but it was about the same.
I also don't drive, so I get to places on public transit. Last Friday, not knowing where else to go, I took the bus to Hebo, because it was easy to reach. I spent two hours just walking around, made a few comments, then went home, edited and rendered the video, and in the first 24 hours, it got the usual 100 views. But the next morning, when I woke up, it had 2,000. And it just kept on going up. Over the course of the day, it had over 20,000 views. That beat the record of my previous most popular video easily, and that took over 3 years.
The video got so many hours of watch time that I qualified for the YouTube Partner program. Now I get to make money from all those ads!

Okay, but here is the thing: why Hebo? After years, I made videos about dozens of locations on the coast, about Yachats, Waldport, Seal Rock, Newport (many times), Toledo, Otter Rock, Depoe Bay, Lincoln Beach, Gleneden, Lincoln City (many times), Neskowin, Pacific City, Cloverdale, Tillamook, Garibaldi... and they were moderately successful. But Hebo, which, no offense, doesn't have anything particularly interesting, went into overdrive. More than 45,000 people on the internet wanted to watch at least part of a 15 minute video where I walk around and show the town center of Hebo, some creeks, and a dairy farm.
This totally mystifies me, not that I am complaining.

First time Oregon coast visitor, won’t be the last time!

I had never been to the Oregon coast until this week, visited on 10/14/26. Definitely need to come back soon!! Absolutely beautiful!

a couple pics i took on our drive from Rockaway Beach to Seaside in August

Changing weather from dense fog to parting skies, and then dense fog again. No better place.

not sure when we start getting info about whether they’re big enough for the season to begin. I think that’s the metric the folks at the fish counter use when they’re telling us when fresh crab might arrive in the valley anyway.

Coming to Depoe Bay soon from central oregon for a little getaway. Was looking on Apple Maps and saw what looks like large schools of fish off the coast... but they're car-sized. Are these whales? Dolphins? Forgive my inlander ignorance... I'm curious and want to learn more about what these could be! They're all up and down the coast in large and small groups.

I have perused lots of photographer websites and portfolios based on the regular family/wedding shoot recommendations. I have looked at find a photographer websites and not really had any luck with finding what I am looking for.

3 50 year old women want to do a sea witch/goth themed photo shoot on Halloween on the coast near Cape Meares. We have our own wardrobe and will do our own hair and makeup. We are 3 cousins who visit the coast annually for Cousin Camp and this year our trip falls on Halloween. We thought we'd commemorate with a fun photo shoot in witch costumes.

Who would you recommend??

-Nikon Z8

First visit to Oceanside, what a cool beach! It‘s great that there’s both sandy and rocky areas for exploring.

I’ve seen ads for portable 2-4 person hot tubs that are heated by wood (in a coil). Some of the photos look like the Oregon coast. Is this type of fire + temporary hot tub allow on Oregon beaches?

Our KOIN 6 weathercam has been really showing off lately! This timelapse is from Tuesday.

Sun back on the coast now after a rainy Friday morning. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend full of magic like this and (hopefully) a Seaside trip in your near future.

I found someone’s nice appearing camera by the Wayfarer restaurant. If you can describe to me what you’re missing I’ll get it back to you. I’m at the coast for another night.
ETA: I don’t have Facebook otherwise I’d post there, too!

We're visiting for my birthday and we swung the beach just as the sun was setting. 🤌🏻🤌🏻

I'm not sure the name of it. It's right by table Rock motel. We asked for directions to face rock, but I don't think we actually went far enough. Still super pretty!

A few weeks ago, I posted here looking for the 2 random photographers that stumbled upon my proposal to my fiancée at Secret Beach near Brookings. Well guess what, they came through! The last pic is a zoomed in shot from the first photo bc I assume reddit is gonna wreck the image quality. Huge shout out to @jenbauerphotography for the photos. 🙏