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Lighthouses, cliffs, sea mammals & birds
As we were getting packed up, we watched the surfers ride some of the longest waves on the coast and kayakers heading out over the surf. The haystack rock here is 235 feet high. We took a quick detour to the Riverhouse restaurant to buy some of their supposedly excellent blue cheese dressing, then continued our drive south along the Pacific Coast …
Another day along the pacific coast
... interesting wave phenomenon that blows water like an old steam engine. The pictures do not convey the noise of the splash and boom that goes along with the wave action. We could have stopped every couple minutes to take pictures along our drive today, the views are that amazing. The storm that kept us in the campsite for a couple days did us a favor because it really made for wonderful views of the wild sea.
After we set up for the night we went ...
Rain, rain, go away....
... ability to adapt.Hokey,yes,but still jaw dropping. The tour ended with real hocum,a trail depicting Paul Bunyan's life with large wood sculptures chisel led with chain saws. The rest of the day was trying to contend with the pelting rain,for 6 hours!Finally had to stop as it was getting dangerous.Had a great Thai dinner and packed it ...
The Oregon Coast
... towel and go swimming with tankers in the distance, but it isn't really the beach. THIS was the beach. Beautiful dunes leading down to huge stretches of flat sand with near perfect waves crashing. There were no skyscrapers, no big tankers, just sand, sun(!), and the Pacific Ocean.
"Whoa!!!! The Goonies Rocks!" Jonas shouted. Sure enough, there sat the giant rock formation crucial to solving the mystery in the classic movie The Goonies. We took a few pics of me at the ...
Coastal Cruisin'
... vehicles of the US from the earliest Reos and Model T Fords to the production models of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Most interesting were the custom built coachwork examples of Rollses, Cords, Bentleys, Cadillacs and La Salles from the 1930s... truly breathtaking art pieces in their own right.
In the afternoon we took to our bikes and rode 15 kms or so along the Rushton Way waterfront trail at the head of Puget Sound. Very nice, especially the return stop ...