Day 4 - Sep 3, 2007 Last updated: 9/9/07 4:30pm PT
First stop today is at the Oregon Dunes. We drove south of Winchester Bay on a small coastal road and saw some very tall dunes. It was early and foggy. There were a lot of people here who were driving their ATVs and bikes around the dunes. In the third picture, there are tiny specks at the top of the dune, in between the trees. Those are people on their bikes waiting to ride down.
Cape Blanco is one of the two places that claim to be the western most point in the lower 48 states. Since we hit the other one earlier this year (Cape Alava in WA) we had to stop here. It was extremely windy. And foggy.
Here’s a little movie that shows the wind blowing the fog up the side of the hill.
I work with a bunch of Norwegians, so I thought I’d snap a picture of this restaurant in Port Orford, OR
A little way past Port Orford there was a place to stop on the side of the road and look back at Cape Blanco. Just the cape is surrounded by fog, everything else is clear!
There was a whale out there, we saw the spray. You can see a little white spot in the water (lower center of picture)
Stopped a few more places before exiting Oregon. One was the Natural Bridges Cove in the Samuel H. Boardman corridor. It’s hard to hold the camera out and take a self portrait while getting the background in the right place.
Spent the night in Crescent City, CA. My advice, don’t. We had a bad hotel and bad dinner. The Best Western in Crescent City is a dump. My feet got dirty walking around on the carpet. And I didn’t walk around that much. Dinner was at the only non-fast food place that seemed to be open, The Fisherman’s Restaurant. Denise had scallops in dirty laundry water. I’m not sure what that liquid was suppose to be, but it didn’t look appetizing. Denise got sick from it.