We spent some of my birthday, the 16th, driving through beautiful Northern Ca and into Oregon.
We just spent two nights in Brookings at Whale's Head Beach Resort, which we had stayed at in the past. This place has full hookups and a laundry, which we did while there. It is set on a steep hill and parking was challenging as Joe had to backup on a hill past two other sites to get to our assigned spot. There are a lot of cabins in this park, many of which are for sale. It is nicely landscaped and has a tunnel to get to the beach on the other side of 101. Besides laundry, the only other thing we did while there was to check out some camping spots in Gold Beach, which is just north of Brookings. We had read about some forest service and other campgrounds on the Rogue River. We checked them out and found a county park, Huntley Park. It is only seven miles from Gold Beach, but the weather is much warmer. There is typical fog and cold weather at the beach. So the next day, we left and headed for our new spot. We have a spot looking out at the Rogue River. Some sites are set among the many trees. Just a lovely spot and nice weather.
We saw a lot of the Jet Boats going up and down the river. We took one of the tours when we were in the area years ago.
We had some nice neighbors, John and Linda and their cute little dog Rose and Maggie the cat. Savannah was happy to make a friend. We would meet them again up the road. We would have liked to kayak the river. However, I had a little health issue. Don't want to really get into many details, but involved a BIG boil on butt. Ugggh. Painful and in a spot that made in hard to sit. After trying to self treat it, I ended up going to an urgent care and then two more follow ups, and getting antibiotics. We went into Brookings and so this took up most of three days. Sheesh, just got medicare this month and using it already. Definitely glad to have it as much better than that overpriced plan I had for the last year and ahalf. Anyway, in spite of this, we had a nice time at Huntley Park, another place we would stay at again.
We next went up to Port Orford where we got a spot at Cape Blanco State Park. It is a beautiful campground on the ocean side with a trail to the beach.
We went into town and had dinner at Griff's on the Dock, which is just located on a working dock. Great views of the harbor. We had an oyster shooter each, shared steamed clams and each had a bowl of clam choweder. Good, but not great.
Saw a raccoon on the side of the road on our way back home.
We stopped at a view point to check out the Cape Blanco Lighthouse. It is the oldest standing lighthouse on the Oregon Coast. It sits on the western most point of Oregon. There are nine lighthouses along the coast and we are going to try to at least take pictures of them all and maybe a tour or two at some of them.
Man, was it windy. I thought I would blow down the hill while trying to take pictures. We had been warned it gets very, very windy here and that is sure the case. Cold too. We decided to only stay one night. We had plans to go up the road towards Coos Bay and stay at a BLM site on the Sixes river. Their site states get away from the fog and wind and enjoy the sunshine. And so we will. Stay tuned.
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