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Josh's Annual Chair Photo |
The plan was that we’d go beach biking this morning, but for
some reason the beach bike place wasn’t open this morning (-8 at 7 am, so why
not?). I went to bed early last night so didn’t find that out until this
morning when I woke up, or I’d have gone for a walk before yoga. As it is I
might not get to walk through the Rock Wahii this trip. We did our usual
morning routine – Dave walked on the beach (all the way to the whale at the
north end!), Josh went to Gearhart to work out, and I went to yoga – 2 classes!
I stayed for the chair yoga class to get some ideas, and while I didn’t really
learn anything new it was a good class. I put into practice some of the things
we talked about at the private lesson yesterday and could feel how much
stronger they made the poses.
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Looking through the hole from the ocean side! |
A small digression about the Rock Wahii. Wahii stands for
With A Hole In It (for a long time we called it the rock WAHIT, until we realized
that ‘It” starts with ‘I”, not ‘T”). It is a giant monolith with, as you might
have guessed, a hole in it. The cool thing is it’s not just a hole, it’s a
tunnel that goes all the way through it, and if both the sand (high) and tide
(low) conditions are right, you can walk right through it. I’ve only done it
once or twice, and Dave got to do it today. When I was there later on the beach
bikes the tide was in too far to walk in it, but I did get a cool video.
Meanwhile, I’d originally planned to stay for only 1 yoga
class and then walk home, so I had my walking purse with me. When my plans
changed and I stayed in town I went to Bruce’s to get some salt water taffy,
and it turns out they have a $5 minimum on credit card purchases, so now I have
a nice pair of Bruce’s socks. I also stopped at B Boutique and got some dressy
t-shirts with raglan sleeves. We were
meeting at Pelican for lunch, so I walked the back way on Spruce St, which is a
very nice walk and includes part of the pedestrian tsunami escape route. I’d
left just a little late, so by the time I got there everyone was seated and had
ordered their beer tasters. Except Sam, who had no beer.

It turns out that even though the weather was ok for beach
biking, the sands were not. Once again we had the situation where the dry sand
was a narrow strip cut off from the ocean by those things I call tide pools but
aren’t really – they’re the streams of water that form between the sand bars
and the beach. So we did our beach bikes for the trip, but it wasn’t a lot of
fun. Dave stayed home, not being a fan of the beach bikes. Also, my fitbit
didn’t notice that I was on the bike. So today I did 2 yoga classes and a 5
mile beach ride but got no credit for it. Apparently August sands are
difficult. Who knew? I did make it all the way to the Rock Wahii, and here's the video I made - looking at it from the beach side.
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Castaways has edible flower garnishes. Sam had a Zinnia. |
We got back at 4:30 and needed to be back in town at 5:30,
which led to the discovery that both showers can be used at once. We got
cleaned up in plenty of time to leave for dinner at Castaway’s, an old standby.
Like everywhere else they were shortstaffed, but they did a nice job of getting
food and drinks out in a timely fashion, and the servers were very friendly. We
need to remember that the seared tuna appetizer is amazing and also a very small
portion. Josh had to get a second one for dessert. Also if the specials don’t
sound exciting Dave should get the jambalaya, spiciness level 2. Dinner was fun
and yummy but a little sad, because Josh and Jen headed out tonight. Jen will
be back on Thursday with her friend Lauren, but Josh is headed back to work. We
will miss him.
Fortunately it had worked out that tonight was the night for
our summer trip to the coaster theater. The play was “Nunsense” and our
favorite actress Cameron Lira from the bookstore was in it. Coaster Theater is
amateur theater at its best and tonight was especially good – the quality of
the acting and singing was very good and the play was very funny. And, Sam got
a Coaster Cookie during intermission, something we’ve always wanted to do but
have been too full to even attempt. So this story do have a happy ending after
all.
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