Day 9, Coast Trip
Dec. 30th, 2007 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crisavecWe drove over to the coast today, so we were up at 630 and on the road by 7am. I swung though Sutherlin to get coffee on the way, and then headed for Reedsport. It was a nice quiet drive, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angie_di dozed a bit, but woke up once we passed Reedsport and got near Florence.
At Florence we finally popped out of the green rainy forest and onto the coast itself, and headed just north to the Sea Lion Caves. It was rather lowlight in the caves, and hard to take photographs but we both gave it a shot. I haven't yet even downloaded the photos to see how they came out. I ran into a guy on the Marketing Committee for NANPA and talked shop for awhile whileangie_di toured the giftshop.
We headed up the coast a ways and stopped at Cape Perpetua to have a look at it, but it was rain squall so only I got out, and there wasn't alot to see besides a blowhole that didn't appear to be doing much. I went back and got my camera just in case, and amusingly even thought the blowhole had done nothing the dozen wavesets I'd watched while talking with a whalewatcher, once I got back with my camera it promptly spouted from the next couple of sets.
We got into Newport just in time for Lunch and met up with my Aunt and Uncle at Flashbacks. Its a supposedly Retro cafe, but not much of one. Food was good though. After that we piled into their car and went to Yaquinta Bay lighthouse to see the Jettys, and then went out to the Yaquinta Head Lighthouse and actually went up inside and looked all around. It was really interesting to see what it looked like, as well as hear all the tales about it. Like the skylight decking on the light level is a series of quartz pieces that were lost at sea, and they had to shanghai replacements from a bank in Portland for the lighthouse so that the keepers had light to see by on the last deck before the light inside the lighthouse.
Next we headed for Depoe Bay, which is reportedly the smallest natural harbor anywhere. I can believe it too, its a multiple dogleg turn to get inside it and the harbor itself is rather small. I watched a Coast Guard 47footer head out to go on patrol, and watching it time its exit to match the waves was interesting. Getting back in with any sort of swell would be a nightmare.
We got back to the car around 6pm, and bit my aunt and uncle good evening and headed home. I decided to show her the house in Junction where i went to first grade from, and then we went to Olive Garden at her request. I was testing out Dad's new GPS he got for xmas,and it proved surprisingly useful for getting around. I don't know how to drive around Eugene at all any more since its been too many years, but the GPS got me everywhere I needed to go there.
angie_di dozed a bit, but woke up once we passed Reedsport and got near Florence.At Florence we finally popped out of the green rainy forest and onto the coast itself, and headed just north to the Sea Lion Caves. It was rather lowlight in the caves, and hard to take photographs but we both gave it a shot. I haven't yet even downloaded the photos to see how they came out. I ran into a guy on the Marketing Committee for NANPA and talked shop for awhile while
angie_di toured the giftshop. We headed up the coast a ways and stopped at Cape Perpetua to have a look at it, but it was rain squall so only I got out, and there wasn't alot to see besides a blowhole that didn't appear to be doing much. I went back and got my camera just in case, and amusingly even thought the blowhole had done nothing the dozen wavesets I'd watched while talking with a whalewatcher, once I got back with my camera it promptly spouted from the next couple of sets.
We got into Newport just in time for Lunch and met up with my Aunt and Uncle at Flashbacks. Its a supposedly Retro cafe, but not much of one. Food was good though. After that we piled into their car and went to Yaquinta Bay lighthouse to see the Jettys, and then went out to the Yaquinta Head Lighthouse and actually went up inside and looked all around. It was really interesting to see what it looked like, as well as hear all the tales about it. Like the skylight decking on the light level is a series of quartz pieces that were lost at sea, and they had to shanghai replacements from a bank in Portland for the lighthouse so that the keepers had light to see by on the last deck before the light inside the lighthouse.
Next we headed for Depoe Bay, which is reportedly the smallest natural harbor anywhere. I can believe it too, its a multiple dogleg turn to get inside it and the harbor itself is rather small. I watched a Coast Guard 47footer head out to go on patrol, and watching it time its exit to match the waves was interesting. Getting back in with any sort of swell would be a nightmare.
We got back to the car around 6pm, and bit my aunt and uncle good evening and headed home. I decided to show her the house in Junction where i went to first grade from, and then we went to Olive Garden at her request. I was testing out Dad's new GPS he got for xmas,and it proved surprisingly useful for getting around. I don't know how to drive around Eugene at all any more since its been too many years, but the GPS got me everywhere I needed to go there.
