and we're at the sand dunes, Coos Bay, Oregon. Cassidy, Becky and I left Vancouver about noon on Saturday and took our time getting down here. We made a detour to Florence, OR and spent the night there at the port RV park. Got my TV hooked up when we arrived at the sand dunes yesterday but the wind was blowing pretty hard so didn't set up the internet until this morning. Doug, Tami, Trace are on the road and will probably get here early this afternoon. Nice, bright and sunny and the wind has calmed down, weather forecast calls for low 70s the remainder of our stay here. Here's some pictures of our last couple of days.
At Florence we drove out to the South Jetty and found an old pier extending out into the river. A seal was swimming around so we watched him for a while and then Cassidy and I found a rope tied onto the end of the pier. We pulled it up and it turned out to be a crab trap with a couple of nice crabs in it. We shoulda stole them. We found some great fish and chips in Florence, toured Old Town and kicked back with cable TV for the night. Yesterday morning we headed to the Hot Rod Grill for breakfast. A bunch of old car are scattered about and a statue, firmed bolted down, of Big Boy. A 1950 Ford is in the center of the restaurant where you can sit and eat. After that we drove up to Sea Lion Caves; but, we were too cheap to pay the price to take the elevator down to the caves. Becky did that last year.
Took pictures of the "famous" lighthouse...............it's so famous that I can't remember the name of it. Heceta Lighthouse, I think. Here's a pic of where we stayed in Florence and a pic of the bridge on the south end of Florence on 101. We drove to Charleston Basin to look for some fresh crab yesterday...........no luck at all, they had crab early in the morning but were sold out when we arrived. Man said it was too windy for the boats so they might have some more crab later in the week. We'll just have to call them. Crab was $6.99 a pound, cooked...............I remember when we paid $2.99 a pound a couple of years ago. We went to the Casino and had some clam chowder and while I lost $5.00 Becky and Cassidy strolled the boardwalk and took pictures. We drove down to the beach and Cassidy and I wedged a dime in a crack on one of the posts..........we'll check it next year to see if it's still there. Wind was blowing............as you can see. Here's where we're parked waiting for the crazies to arrived with the sand vehicles.
More later if anything interesting happens. W B & C
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