The road continues, sometimes very muddily, through thickets of red osier dogwood, Armenian blackberry, snowberry, cottonwood, Oregon ash, and willow.Įventually the road bed turns to reach the little bay and basalt point at Warrior Rock, where Oregon's smallest lighthouse, the Warrior Rock Light is still functioning. On the river, there may be fishermen and sea lions sunning themselves on the buoys. This area is former farmland, and you may also stumble across signs of previous human habitation such as concrete building foundations, chimneys and rusting metal machinery parts. If you are prepared to bushwack a bit, there are a variety of ponds, sloughs and wetlands to the west of the access road. Continue north on this road.įrom the road, you will be able to access several viewpoints of the river, but there is no more continuous beach walking available: the shore is mainly a mudflat that blooms with sneezeweed, Douglas’ aster, field mint and coreopsis in the fall. Look for a path through the brush to take you to the dirt access road through a cottonwood forest that parallels the beach.
After about a half mile, you will run out of beach. Cottonwoods, willows, ash, and black locust rim the shore. Head north (downstream), and if the weather is clear, you should get a glimpse of the lighthouse, near the end of the island, three miles away. Make sure you pick up your refuge day pass before you park at the trailhead.įrom the trailhead at the end of Reeder Road, you can pass through the entry gate, but it is more pleasant to start on the beach. In late summer and early fall, river levels are way down and you may be able to walk a long stretch on the beach and hard mudflats. Sea lions frequent the Columbia River and feast on the runs of chinook, steelhead, and smelt. In winter, both on the hike and the drive in there's an excellent chance of seeing bald eagles, sandhill cranes, Canada and cackling geese, snow geese, and tundra swans. You will be traveling through a state wildlife refuge and visiting the small Warrior Rock Light. An additional location was established in 2005 at 4635 Gulfstarr Drive in Destin.Take a quiet, flat stroll out to the northern tip of Sauvie Island.
The firm moved to its present Fort Walton Beach location, 24 Walter Martin Road, in 1983. Following the retirement of Pat Demski in 2005, the firm again changed its name to the current name, Nicholson, Reeder & Reynolds, P.A. In 1997, Diana was admitted as the newest partner. Nicholson retired from the firm in 1993 after almost 35 years of public accounting. Reynolds, a 1983 graduate of Choctawhatchee High School and a 1988 graduate of the University of Florida, began working with the firm straight out of college. In 1985, Pat accepted the invitation to be partner and the firm name changed to Nicholson, Reeder & Demski, P.A.ĭiana S. Demski, a 1971 graduate of Choctawhatchee High School and a 1975 graduate of Florida State University, began working with Nicholson & Reeder in 1977. In 1976, the partnership Nicholson & Reeder Certified Public Accountants was established. Nicholson to be his mentor and accepted his invitation to join him as a partner.
Nicholson’s accounting firm in 1973 and considered Mr. Reeder graduated from the University of West Florida in 1972 and began working with the Miami office of the national CPA firm, Haskins & Sells (currently Deloitte & Touche). The original office was located at 54 Beal Parkway in Fort Walton Beach and consisted of a staff of two. Nicholson founded his own local accounting firm as a sole proprietor.