We got moving early this morning and continued South on Highway 101. When I looked at our odometer it read just over 200 miles. That's for 5 days travel. A measly 40 miles per day. That just shows how many wonderful sights there are to be seen along the Pacific coastline.
We'll be spending the next 3 days at Cape Blanco State Park. We have a full schedule planned for those days including a 64 mile jet boat ride up the Rogue River tomorrow.
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| Cape Blanco Lighthouse. |
To some people that photo might look like a fog bank being blown into the coast by a 30 MPH wind. We believe there is a lighthouse there but we haven't seen it yet. We have 3 days to find it.
So I'll move along to three lighthouses we DID see today.
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| Umpqua River Lighthouse. |
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| Coquille River Lighthouse. |
The best part of the Coquille River Lighthouse was the breakwater coming in from the Pacific. Pounding surf and a great beach for Eva to run on made us all happy.
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| Bare foot in the sand again. |
We were only able to view Cape Arago Lighthouse from a distance because we choose not to take a major hike to get near it. But we did stop and have our picnic lunch at a small cove near the Cape.
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| Eva and Terri enjoying the white sand. |
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| A relatively calm cove with huge breakers just outside the entrance.. Shore Acres State Park. |
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| Sand dunes in Southern Oregon. |
After dinner we bundled up and went for a short hike. If it looks like I am leaning a few degrees off center it's because the wind is really blowing this evening. Terri's words of caution were, "Don't blow over the edge." Good advice.
Life is good..... if we don't blow away.
If you click on the satellite option on the Google map on the right hand side of the blog you can zoom into an amazing satellite picture of our location. This is a jewel of a state park, perhaps the best we have visited. But I always say that.
Hey dad.
ReplyDeleteGrace us with some lighthouse trivia, won't you? Why are lighthouses always white (and often with red accents)? When did they begin making lighthouses? (If it was pre-electricity, how did they make the lights?) Their purpose is to help ships navigate/not crash into land, right? Now that there is GPS, are lighthouses still used?
Inquiring minds want to know! (And it's funner to ask you than to ask google...)