BREAKING NEWS FROM SUNRIVER, OREGON-30, AUGUST 2014

      POST STORM SUNSET, PACIFIC CITY, OREGON

LIBATIONS AFTER VISITING THE BREWERY

One day we met up with Andy and Linda Clarkson at the Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon. We tasted some of everything there, then came here to the Cascade Brew house to  quench our terrible thirsts.

BARRY AND BARNEY THE BLUE JAYS

These guys acted like a couple of turkeys instead of Stellar Blue Jays. They showed up about 17 seconds after I filled and hung the bird feeder. Instead of sitting on the bird feeder and properly pecking at the seed, they would scoop the food out of the feeder and scatter it all over the ground, then peck it off the ground like a couple of turkeys.

HAIL YES, IT GETS COLD

The weather here in the Cascades has been lovely days and nights. Days typically in the 80's and sunny, and nights in the 50's. The wind has usually been a mild breeze, and the rain a few drops late afternoon.
However, twice, out of nowhere, came the hail, about marble size, and lasted longer than other hail storms I have witnessed. This one lasted about 1 1/2 hours, and this picture was taken about two minutes into it. I could not have ventured outside much later than this.

LAKE PAULINA

South East of Bend Oregon, lies this beautiful extinct volcano. The craters formed by the explosion formed the two lakes of Paulina and Eastlake.
This area is quite a recreational area, year round. Boating, hiking, and fishing in the summer, and skiing, snowmobiling, and other winter sports in the winter.

VOLCANIC RIM OF MT. PAULINA

Paulina Mountain was formed by a volcano. This is the rim as seen from the top. It drops down to form the two lakes of Paulina and Eastlake. From this vantage point, Paulina would be in the left of the ridge, and Eastlake would be on the right.

THE TWIN FALLS OF PAULINA

Drain off from Lake Paulina works it's way down the volcanic banks of the mountain to form these beautiful falls.

LUCKY FORTUNE CHINESE RESTAURANT

We have been blessed with fiends where ever we have gone this year. On this occasion, we were in La Pine, Oregon and hooked up with friends who also happened to be in the area for a Chinese repast. From left to right around the table, Diane, Nita, Ken, Linda, Andy, Sandy and Roger.

EL CAMPO BREHM AT SUNRIVER, OR,

This will be our home for 3 weeks. Beautiful scenery with Stellar Blue Jays, hummingbirds, red winged black birds, hawks, and a variety of other birds. Also deer, big bushy gray squirrels,and chipmunks.

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.

OREGON KING OF THE WOODS

Yesssir, there are some ugly things on this Earth, but the banana slug is, in my opinion, the king of ugly. For those who haven't met one, they are slimier than snot on a door knob, big as torsion bar on a Buick, hornier than a buck in  rut, and uglier than a California Congresswoman.