Trip to the Oregon Coast 2008
We arrived in Long Beach early evening. Took us quite awhile to get here because of all the stops we made. The sky was becoming overcast and the weatherman on the news said that good chance of rain over night. That is good, Rain at night so our day can be beautiful!
We just crossed the Columbia River, and pulled over to take some photos. It was a bit hazy, so could not get very clear ones.
Then Patricia gasped and for a moment thought this was a man in the water. It sure did look like it too, for a minute. But it was just some driftwood.
These wood carvings were next to our motel, The Rodeway Inn. It was pretty nice too. Very nice people. Clean, and reasonable rates. It was close to the ocean, and downtown, so you could walk everywhere. They had a swimming pool, and she told us it was heated to 75 degrees. Well that was cold! THink about it. Our body temp is 98 and the water is 75? That was chilly. We did not swim in the pool.
This is a combination museum and store. Had a lot of neat things in it and was right next to our motel.
First things first. We had to go check the ocean out, and see what this "driving on the beach" was like. I was not brave enough to take my car out there, because the voice of "RICK" was in the back of my head: "DON'T DO IT JODY! You get your car stuck in the sand and I will be very angry with you!" So I just went as far as I dared just to say I was there. teehee....
These Signs were all over the beaches in Long Beach.
The Beach
Patricia walking in the rain. This day it rained all day long. Good thing we bought these coats in Lincoln City because they were also a rain coat. Came in very handy!
We took off to visit Light houses. This is guest houses next to NORTH HEAD light house. These building look realatively newly remodeled. The light house was a different matter....
North Head Light House.
Miserable Rain!
North Head Light House is in the distance.
On our drive North, along the pennisula, we encountered a Cranberry Farm. It is worth the stop if you ever get that way. Pretty interesting in how this farm started, why it is still being worked, and how, over the years, the cranberrys were harvested. If I told you all of it now, you would not want to stop, so I will keep in you suspense, because it is worth it. Very Fasinating.
I like to stop at old cemetaries, and we had to make a turn around, and I saw this one. So we stopped and looked around, and read a few head stones. It was very pretty and interesting. We did pass up a "Pioneer Cemetary" I wish now I would of taken the time to stop at, but we didn't. I thought putting Patricia through One Cemetary Walk About was Enough...Teehee...
At the very Northern Tip of the pennisula, there is Ledbetter Point. It was pretty driving in, took some photos, saw some large root systems and trees. But we had to walk a path to the beach, and it was raining quite hard. We were both soaked, and just did not feel like getting wetter, so we passed that up.
On the way to Ledbetter Point, there was this awesome gate. It looked majestik and like someone important lived behind it. We came across three of these types of gates up there. Why we have no idea. It wasn't like there were a lot of people they had to keep out. At one point I wanted Patricia to ring the little intercom and ask who lived there, but she didn't want to do that. Teehee....
Taking a break from the rain, we stopped at the Lewis & Clark interpretive center. These pics were taken outside. We could not walk to the light house you see in the back ground, because the US NAVEL SERVICE was doing shooting practice exercises and they had to close off the 3/4 mile path due to straying shots. We never heard any of it though.
We wind our way around and end up back in town. We stop at a thrift store, find a few items we could not live without. Patricia wants to go see the whale skeleton that is on the beach. So we go and check it out. Below are the photos of it. It was pretty neat.
Page 3: We head back South.
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