The End

 

Our morning walk was an experimental walk from Driftwood Beach, just a couple miles north of us, to Seal Rock. It wasn’t completely clear from looking at the maps if there would be places where there was no beach to walk on between the two ends, but we decided to try it anyway. Leaving from Driftwood beach we saw what might have been the beginnings of the cool sand waves that we used to play in on Agate Beach. The beach is wide until you get close to Seal Rock, then there are a couple of places where you have to scramble over some rocky outcrops to get through. We made it just to the south edge of Seal Beach, but didn’t climb down from the sunset watching rock onto the beach because we were worried about the tide – there’s one section that would have been little dicey if the tide came in. 

Cliff dwelling

Slickrock, but wet

Once we’d gotten back past the nervous point we were able to relax and take our time and visit the tide pools. There are fewer tide pool creatures here – we didn’t see any starfish or mussels. We also had fun noticing things that look like Sedona, but aren't. We had a smooth walk back to access point 66, and a short stop at the trailer before heading to town for lunch at the big Rogue brewery, which I don’t like as much as the one across the bridge. After lunch we walked out on the jetty where many people were crabbing. While we were out there it was windy and there was starting to be some fog out on the ocean. We walked back to the truck and went across the bridge to get gas, and by the time we came back the bridge was completely fogged in, and it was foggy for most of the drive back to the KOA. It cleared up around Driftwood Beach, and when we got back it was lovely and sunny where we were but foggy out on the ocean. I sat outside to watch the fog and ended up having a lovely nap.

We had another wonderful afternoon of relaxing – knitting, duolingo, and online CPR/First aid training for me; online forklift operator training and image processing tutorials for Dave. We’re thinking we’d rather be in South Beach State Park than here – it’s much closer to Newport and has hiking trails you don’t have to drive to – but we have made great use of the wifi here at the KOA. We had yummy green chili chicken enchiladas from home for our trailer dinner and spent another relaxing evening doing our favorite trailer-y things. That is all.