Day 6 - Last Full Day on the Coast

We woke up to a bit of gloomy weather this morning - the mist was rolling in off the ocean and pretty soon, it was misting on the trailer. Not to be deterred and since we didn't get to take the Boys to the beach yesterday, we decided to head south to where we've stayed on our prior trips out here - Newport, Oregon. It was only about 20 miles down the coast from where we were so not too far.

We took the scenic route out to Cape Foulweather and stopped along the way to get some pictures of a cool bridge and the ocean:

 

As you can see, it started to clear up a bit as we headed south. 

We stopped at Cape Foulweather and Jen took this shot from the top:

As we were standing watching out, everyone kept commenting that there was a whale and finally, Julz caught just the end of the whale spouting (you have to look close though - the spout is just to the left of the big rock near the center of the picture and is just a little "poof"):

We then took the Boys to Agate Beach in Newport and they were sure excited to get out of the truck and run around - they both couldn't wait to get to the ocean:

Angus found what was left of a Dungeness crab shell and was giving it heck:

Dash kept trying to get the seagulls and other little shore birds but his leash kept him in check - guess he is a bird dog after all!!

Here's some pics of the beach:

We ended up walking over 2 miles on the beach and the walk back was very windy. We were almost sandblasted a couple of times! 

We finally made it back to the truck and drove a bit further down the coast to Seal Rocks. We took a couple photos here and then headed back:

We decided to call it a day and headed back to Lincoln City. We wanted to fuel up the Big Nasty  before we re-attach the Toad to head inland for the rest of our trip. We did make a quick stop at a little fish market along the road and picked up some Dungeness crab and some chowder for dinner. Quite tasty!!

Tomorrow we are off to the Hood River area - we actually are staying just outside the town of Hood River, Oregon in the shadow of Mount Hood! Can't wait to get there and do some more hiking around. 

Note: Our posts may be a bit more sporadic as this park does not have wi-fi (oh the humanity!!) so unless we can "borrow" some from a neighbor on an unsecured network, we may have to make a couple runs into Hood River to the Starbucks to use their wi-fi and you all know what a burden that will be - We'll just "have" to buy something - otherwise, it's just stealing!

Thank you all for reading along!