Today I drove 160 miles traveling from Crescent City, California to Coos Bay, Oregon.
It covers today as well as the next two days on the Oregon Coast. Today's activities are seen in the first 76 minutes of the video. (Don't like long videos? Click  for some shorter videos from today.) |
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Howdy, It was only a twenty mile drive this morning from Crescent City, California to the great state of Oregon. While yesterday was devoted to the redwoods, today it was back to scenic ocean vistas. I did not drive through one tree all day. My first stop was at Cape Ferrelo Viewpoint. This is part of the Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor.  The weather was perfect again today. Except for the monsoon I drove through in western Nebraska, I have been very lucky with the weather all trip. The picture below was taken at Arch Rock Point although it is not Arch Rock.  The viewpoints were numerous. During the first part of the day I was stopping every two or three miles. I continued driving north stopping next at Meyers Creek Beach.  I think my favorite vista today was at Otter Point. From a slightly elevated perch you overlook pristine beaches and unusual sandstone rock formations sculpted by wind and waves.  Located at the state's westernmost tip, and perched over the Pacific Ocean, Cape Blanco features a 19th-century lighthouse. Built in 1870, Cape Blanco Lighthouse is the oldest standing lighthouse on the Oregon coast.  It was very windy at Cape Blanco. It felt much cooler than every other place I stopped today. The picture below is still Cape Blanco. It looks to the left of the picture above.  The Hughes House is an historic Queen Anne-style house built in 1898 on Cape Blanco. The Hughes family owned over 2,000 acres and operated a dairy farm on Cape Blanco.  Coquille Point is a headland viewpoint of tidepools and sea stacks. It is also home to thousands of marine mammals and seabirds.  A new large-scale sculpture of a Tufted Puffin has been installed at the Coquille Point overlook. Cosmo, the Tufted Puffin was constructed out of waste plastics found on the beaches near Bandon and was created by the Washed Ashore project, a program designed to raise awareness about the concerns of plastic pollution in our oceans. A clever statue and a worthy cause!  My next stop was at Coquille River Light (formerly known as Bandon Light). It was first lit on February 29, 1896, the light guided mariners past the dangerous shifting sandbars into the Coquille River and harbor at Bandon. In 1936 a wildfire destroyed most of Bandon. The town soon became bankrupt and Coquille Light was shut down in 1939.  The last picture that I will bore you with today is Cape Arago. It was my last stop of the day. Unfortunately the lighthouse is on private property and that is as close as I could get to it.  I am spending the night at a Best Western in Coos Bay. I have broken my drive up the Oregon coast into three days. Today was the southern third. Tomorrow I will take on the middle third. You can probably guess what I will be doing Thursday. Have a good night, Tim |
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