Day 25 Spouting Horn, Oregon Coast

We are still slowly moving down the Oregon coast. Yesterday we made 85 miles, today 42. It was a beautiful cloudy day, without rain. Forget about seeing any sun, we are just happy when it doesn't rain. There is so many fantastic scenic thrills awaiting around every bend in the road. We keep stopping to go exploring. The pictures are as follows. The first photo is called Devils Churn. It was formed many years ago, by the sea going into a small crack in the rocks. Eventually it cut a huge grove through the rock. The second photo is called Spouting Horn. What happens here is the waves rush through an opening in the rocks, and shoots out a large ocean geyser followed by the sound of a horn. The height of spray and noise depend on amount of water rushing in. They say it is really loud during a storm. I took the third photo thinking it was going to rain soon. It didn't rain that time. The lighthouse is called Heceta Head lighthouse. It has the most powerful lens on west coast, that can be seen for 22 miles. This lighthouse is still in service and if you look close at the photo you can see the light which blinks every 10 seconds.This photo was taken at the spot where they take calendar photos of this lighthouse. It is up to 62 degrees tonight, and if this keeps up and Ohio's temperature goes down like it is supposed to we may even be warmer here. It is supposed to rain a lot with high winds tomorrow, so we may not get far. We are camped in a National Forest campground tonight.

Day 24 Devil's Punch Bowl

Last night we were camped in about the center of this picture. It doesn't show the height, but we were up very high when this picture was taken.


This next picture is Cape Kiwanda where people were going up and sliding down big sand hill.


We called this arch rock.



This picture is the Devils Punchbowl.




We were glad we weren't travelling like this guy and his wife (not shown) . It was pouring down rain and they were going up a steep hill about 2 miles long.




Today we also went up in another lighthouse and seen the world's shortest river by Guiness book of records. It is named D river and is 120 ft. long from Devils lake to the Pacific ocean. It really rained hard at times today. Got soaked on lighthouse tour. Camped tonight at South Beach campground. Tomorrow we will continue to follow Highway 101 clear to California.

Day 23 Cape Mears Lighthouse

We are camped at the following location at green arrow. Click on following link.
http://maps.google.com/maps?near=45.365462,-123.967377&f=q&hl=en&q=campground&t=h&om=1&ie=UTF8&ll=45.355523,-123.930244&spn=0.098673,0.32959&z=12

It has been a terrible cold rainy day. I wish we had some of our weather from back home. Today we went through the Tillamonk Cheese Factory. We were told to check this out. We ate lunch there and had ice cream. Really good. We went on to see Cape Mears lighthouse. Rain was bad, pictures didn't turn out very good, but here they are.