Oregon Coast

Just got back from a post-dinner walk on the beach.  We finally got to touch the Pacific Ocean! Spent last night in Waldport about a third of the way down the coast.  We weren't terribly impressed with the northern Oregon coast but today has been totally different.  Incredible coastline from Waldport to Gold Beach where we are staying tonight.

Delicious blackberries for breakfast. 

This morning I went for a walk before we hit the road and picked a whole bowlful of big blackberries - right next to the RV park.  They are delicious and seemingly grow wild everywhere.

Got to see some sea lions frolicking in the surf near the sea lion caves.  Tonight on our walk we saw some sort of seal, flocks of pelicans, and dozens of cormorants.  The weirdest sighting was a hawk that had caught what we thought was a fish.  Turns out it was a snake!!  It flew over the beach and dropped it, probably because it was alive and wiggling.  It swooped down and grabbed it up again, and then flew around.  It looked like he was looking for a good place to land and eat it. Didn't see where he landed.

Had to FORCE the girls to leave the wifi and walk with me on
 the beach.  Mya is none too happy but here is the "turtle rock"
the RV park is named after.  Afterwords they did
say they were glad I made them go:-)

It's surprisingly cold here (Turtle Rock RV Resort)  I didn't expect it to be so chilly.  Only 54 this a.m. but got up to 64 but that seems to be balmy for this part of the world.  The water is COLD!  Couldn't talk the girls into swimming in it.  The thermometer says it's 55 right now - almost 8 at night - brrrrrr!

Gold Beach, Oregon

Tomorrow our destination is Redwood National Forest.  Still don't know how we are going to get home - but we need to go through Nevada at some point so we can fill in the map:-)  On one map it looks like there is a HWY 50 called "the loneliest hwy" so I'm going to google that and see if it's doable in our rig.  Mya wants to go by the great salt lake "to touch it".  We skirted it when we came up through Utah but she wants to actually touch it - go figure!  We'll see . . .