Wednesday, August 6, 2014

GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS FROM THE OREGON COAST

    Hope all is well with you. As you see, things are tough here. Guess I'll throw back a cold one now.

NESKOWIN CREEK CAMP



This is what my friend, Keith Gentry would call a "Horse Chart". Nothing for me to say. It's all here.

LITTLE NESTUCA RIVER, NESKOWIN, OR



We love these little berry covered rustic bridges in Oregon. Believe it or not, I drove the motorhome across this one to reach our campsite at Neskowin.

STEAM LOCOMOTIVE, GARIBALDI TO ROCKAWAY BEACH




One of those neat little oddities you see along the way. I believe this old steam locomotive was used in the local lumber industry in it's day. Now it travels between Garibaldi and Rockaway beach while tourists aboard sip local wines and taste Tillamook Cheese.

CAMPING ON THE CLIFF OVER THE BEACH, PACIFIC CITY



This is us. Hanging over the cliff above the beach. This camp was designed for tents, camper trucks, and people with Prius' towing teardrop trailers. People with 40' motorhomes have got to be  a couple beers short of a clambake to try this.
I cracked the windshield trying to park here.

DO- DO -DO LOOKING OUT OUR BACK DOOR




While the camp at Pacific City certainly has it's challenges to get parked with a 40' Monaco Motorhome, the views are spectacular. Whale watching is a favorite pass-time here. This is the view from the back of our motorhome at our campsite.

THE ROAD TO THE BEACH, PACIFIC CITY, OR.



From the two lane highway above, there is a sneaky little dirt road between the forest of trees really only known to the locals. If you slide down the trail, you can drive right on to the beach. A trip we always take when here.

HAY STACK ROCK WITH TEA CUP HANDLE, PACIFIC CITY, OR.



This is the landmark of Pacific City. The rock, not Diane, although she might be a contender. This place reminds me a little of Morro Bay with it's large landmark rock as well.
On the right side, you can see what is referred to as the tea cup handle, of the rock again, not Diane.

PACIFIC CITY SURFER CHICK


Pacific City is one of the many small beach communities along the Oregon Coast. Beautiful surf, clean sand you can drive your car on, a couple of oyster bar/crab shack, burger pubs serving local beers. Usually a couple of churches, a Les Schwab Tire Store, a thrift shop, small grocery stores and maybe, if it's a high falutin  place, even  a Fred Meyer, Oregon's answer to Wal-Mart.

MARINA AT GARIBALDI, OR.



I have always enjoyed the quaintness of the Pacific Coast, especially the North California coast up to Canada. The little towns along the way are at most artist communities, and at a minimum, a little restaurant made out of a 1930's home, a gas pump, and maybe a fish monger and some salt water taffy. From the coast, we headed East to replace the windshield, and then on to the Cascade Mountains.