Thursday, March 24, 2011
Notice !
To let you know, we added tons of pictures to the blog(from the past 3 weeks). So, please, go back thru recent pictures so you don't miss any.
Lincoln City, OR
Monday morning we drove north away from Port Orford towards Lincoln City, OR and Coyote Rock RV Park. It was a 5 hour drive, 173 miles up Hwy 101.
One interesting town along the way was named Coos Bay. There was a tremendous lumber indrustry goin on there, with logs being loaded onto a large ship.
In Brandon, we passed some cranberry bogs. We didn't know they raised cranberries in Oregon. It looks like the area where I grew up near Cape Cod, where Ocean Spray got started.
We drove by the 'Oregon Dunes' which we had never heard of. It looked like the dunes area gets lots of day use. We were surprised that the sand dunes followed the highway for what seemed at least 20 miles.
This day of touring was like the last few, with rain, hail, dark clouds, white ones, and sunshine. Just beautiful most of the way.
We were pleased to arrive at Coyote Rock Marina and RV Park. It was a mile inland along a wild river(not dammed), the Siletz, nestled in the mountains. The mountain sides here are closely managed with the big lumber industry near by. Lots of clear cutting happens and it appears ugly at first sight, but the uglyness is short lived and you can see where new growth begins to happen.
Good thing for us it's off season to not only for tourism, but also for the sport fishing. They catch big salmon here, coho and steelhead, as well as rainbow trout, but not at this time of year. We are told this place is packed in summer, and in September when the salmon run.
It will be easy to spend 3 nights here to relax and recharge. The weather forecast is for showers about every day tho. As you've noticed in the pictures, weather systems blow thru here off of the Pacific all the time, constantly it seems, but the sun comes out many times each day and it's beautiful to see. Since we're heading North in Springtime, the temperatures are having a hard time getting into the 60's these days. No complaints tho, they'll get there.
We've now driven about 9,000 miles, and we gave the GMC an oil change, fuel filter, and transmission fluid filter in Lincold City this week.
One interesting town along the way was named Coos Bay. There was a tremendous lumber indrustry goin on there, with logs being loaded onto a large ship.
In Brandon, we passed some cranberry bogs. We didn't know they raised cranberries in Oregon. It looks like the area where I grew up near Cape Cod, where Ocean Spray got started.
We drove by the 'Oregon Dunes' which we had never heard of. It looked like the dunes area gets lots of day use. We were surprised that the sand dunes followed the highway for what seemed at least 20 miles.
This day of touring was like the last few, with rain, hail, dark clouds, white ones, and sunshine. Just beautiful most of the way.
We were pleased to arrive at Coyote Rock Marina and RV Park. It was a mile inland along a wild river(not dammed), the Siletz, nestled in the mountains. The mountain sides here are closely managed with the big lumber industry near by. Lots of clear cutting happens and it appears ugly at first sight, but the uglyness is short lived and you can see where new growth begins to happen.
Good thing for us it's off season to not only for tourism, but also for the sport fishing. They catch big salmon here, coho and steelhead, as well as rainbow trout, but not at this time of year. We are told this place is packed in summer, and in September when the salmon run.
It will be easy to spend 3 nights here to relax and recharge. The weather forecast is for showers about every day tho. As you've noticed in the pictures, weather systems blow thru here off of the Pacific all the time, constantly it seems, but the sun comes out many times each day and it's beautiful to see. Since we're heading North in Springtime, the temperatures are having a hard time getting into the 60's these days. No complaints tho, they'll get there.
We've now driven about 9,000 miles, and we gave the GMC an oil change, fuel filter, and transmission fluid filter in Lincold City this week.
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