It's that time of year again.....boo, boo!
Happy end of October
Friday, October 17, 2014
Friday, October 10, 2014
Gone and back....
How fast time can fly when you are out and about. But the main question is why do we not do it more often as we so love the coast and the ocean and the beachcombing and just being away for a few days.....
We left Wednesday morning and had two nights reserved in Gold Beach. This left us plenty of time to take a few roads less traveled and now that summer is over the beaches were just about empty.
And we had windless sunshine on the first day.
One of our favorite stops is in Port Orford. The big rock is "Battle Rock". There is also a quilt store here that never gets passed by.
There is no way to take a bad picture of the Oregon coast, not even from the balcony of a motel room in Gold Beach.... by this time we already had driftwood and rocks in the back of the car!
Thursday was spent heading up the Rogue River out of Gold Beach. We had stopped by the Ranger Station for a map of the old growth trail that was to be our main destination and while there just happened to mentioned in conversation the question of 'what are agates?' The gal was nice enough to look over the few we thought were agates from the day before and WHOPEE three of the many rocks were!
Okay, back to the trail....
We left Wednesday morning and had two nights reserved in Gold Beach. This left us plenty of time to take a few roads less traveled and now that summer is over the beaches were just about empty.
And we had windless sunshine on the first day.
One of our favorite stops is in Port Orford. The big rock is "Battle Rock". There is also a quilt store here that never gets passed by.
There is no way to take a bad picture of the Oregon coast, not even from the balcony of a motel room in Gold Beach.... by this time we already had driftwood and rocks in the back of the car!
Thursday was spent heading up the Rogue River out of Gold Beach. We had stopped by the Ranger Station for a map of the old growth trail that was to be our main destination and while there just happened to mentioned in conversation the question of 'what are agates?' The gal was nice enough to look over the few we thought were agates from the day before and WHOPEE three of the many rocks were!
Okay, back to the trail....
The trailhead was 2 miles off the main road and was one lane the whole way as we wound our way up....once at the trailhead there was only one other car in the parking lot. Trail was a 1 1/2 loop trail and when we returned to the parking lot the other car was gone. We never saw or heard anything!
A ways up the Rogue River...the mail boats use to go from Gold Beach to the town of Agness to deliver mail. Now the Jet Boats do the 63 mile round trip with tourists...
An old tug boat sunk at the mouth of the Rogue River.
Friday morning we headed down to Brookings as our southern turn around point before heading home. The fog was in but the coast was still pretty....
Happy travels.
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