Sunday, July 29, 2007
We left Arcata, CA at 7:15 this morning, as we headed north we saw 2 sets of 5 bull elk and 1 cow along the road. The traffic was light for the first couple of hours, until we got into southern Oregon, the traffic started to pick up and the road had less and less passing lanes. We got into Lincoln City about 3:00, and got settled.
It is windy this late afternoon and evening. We are planning on staying about 3 to 5 days before moving on. This evening we worked out a calendar of our travels from now till Brett and Anne’s wedding in Western WA on 9/18.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Today was a day of rest, the drive yesterday was curvy, up and down and slow in places. We were glad when we got to the RV spot. We had reserved a spot at the Logan Road RV Park, it is a clean, neat and quiet, most of the people here are spending their time at the nearby casino. There is a nice green area for the girls, they have always liked being on grass.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
We are looking for birds today, we visited several of the birding areas on the coast and we saw very few birds, we must be in the wrong season. Jim and I went down to one of the beaches and walked, there were lots of people doing all sorts of beach activities, kiting seemed to be the most popular, there is always a strong wind on the Oregon coast.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
We didn’t do much today, today’s project was taking the girls to the beach. This was one of the first trips to the water for Roadie, she loved it. When the waves came in she tried jumping over them or hiding behind Jim so they couldn’t get to her, as soon as they passed she would jump and play in the water. The water was cold, we couldn’t stay in very long, so we made several trips, getting out just to warm our feet. There was some guys wind surfing and one of them was coming in for a landing, the sail came over Roadie and she started barking at it and continued till the guy got it collapsed. Maggie just wanted to chase a seagull shadow on the beach, she acted like she was young again.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Today we went to Depoe Bay and the Whaling Center, we were looking for and finally spotted a whale out by the rocks, as it rolled we could see it’s fins and back. We watched was quite a while and finally went over to the Center, it was closer to where the whales where. Several times when the whale rolled we could see the flukes, just before we left we saw that there were two whales that came up at the same time and showed their fins.
We stopped at several of the Bays along the coast, but didn’t see anymore whales. Our next stop was at the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. I went to the top, Jim stayed down taking bird picture of the thousands of Murrs on the rocks off the shore. What a wonderful 135 year old light house, the lens was orginal that had come from France.
Our next stop was at the Oregon Coastal Aquarium, we saw lots of fish, crabs and other water creatures. There we say the Tufted Puffin, Jim had not seen one before, the Puffin was a captured bird, we are going to look for one in the wild. We had a nice day and celebrated the evening by having dinner at the Chinook Winds Casino.
