Thursday, June 12, 2008

We made it to Coquille River Lighthouse before the doors opened and hopefully we got a good picture. We had a nice talk with the volunteers there. We didn't go up to the top of the lighthouse. The history of the lighthouse was very interesting.... especially to the history buff in the family.


We had a nice stay at Bullard State Park... very quiet. Frank had a bit of a rough night... but is okay today. We left at 1:15 pm (GA Time) and arrived at Lakeshore RV Park just south of Florence at 3:30. It is another quiet park so far. It is clean and the showers were warm :-)


After we set up we set off sight-seeing. We only drove by Umpqua Lighthouse. Not really a place for us to park with the trailer. It had apartment housing all around it and wasn't very picturesque. We visited Sea Lion Cave. Most of the sealions were on the rocks below the cliff. We had our telephoto lens on the cameras, so hopefully there is a good picture among our cameras. Frank totes around two film cameras and the camcorder... he thinks he looks like all the Japanese tourist we saw many years ago in Hawaii that we used to chuckle at :-D The sea lions are very interesting. There was not a pleasant odor on that section of the beach... I'm guessing sea lions cause this odor :-) There were a dozen or so in the sea lion cave. We watch one of the smaller sea lions... probably a female struggle to get up on the big rock. Just amazing to watch them.


Then off to another lighthouse... Heceta Lighthouse. It too was interesting. Each lighthouse has a different and fascinating history. We did climb to the top of this one.


We stopped on the way home in Florence and bought gas at $4.83 a gallon. Then back to home and a warm shower. It was very cold at the sea lion cave. The temperature was 55 degrees, but gale force winds made it feel much colder. It was a bit warmer at the lighthouse... 57 degrees. The wind was blocked in some places by trees on the "half mile" hike "up" to the lighthouse. I think most of these hikes are mismeasured :-D


We looked some things up for travel on the internet and then I searched for what an agate looks like. It looks like we pick up some agates... maybe :-D I don't care if they are or aren't.. I just picked up what I liked.


Frank is napping and I feel like I need to... it is almost 8 pm (Pacific Time).



We traveled 67 miles... plus sight-seeing.