Made a day trip north to the Florence area to get some pics and discovered it was the Rhody Festival weekend. LOTS of motorcycles on the road today! We actually caught the end of the festivities which is fine with us - not so keen on big crowds
Can’t visit old town Florence without having a meal at Bay Street Grille!
Made a side trip out towards the north spit to hunt a couple of geocaches.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Yesterday, north to Umpqua Lighthouse - today, south to the Rogue River and Gold Beach! Getting out to enjoy this nice weather!
We rarely stop at touristy places like the Prehistoric Gardens (between Port Orford and Gold Beach) but there was a new geocache placed there so today we stopped! Checked out the gift shop as well.
Lots of fog and mist along the coast this morning. This made for lousy photo ops so when we got to Gold Beach we turned up the river and went to Lobster Creek bridge. Pat got some good pics there. We also got to see a jetboat returning downstream with a load of rather friendly folks - waved at us as they passed under the bridge. This reminded us to sign up for one of these boat rides this summer - looks like a lot of fun!
Upon returning to Gold Beach we decided to have meal at the Port Hole Cafe. My fish-n-chips was good but Pat’s salmon dinner was awful! Overcooked on the edges, undercooked in the middle! Scratch that place off the list!
After our “meal” we took what was meant to be a short diversion south to the Cape Sebastian viewpoint to see if Pat could get some decent photos. Stopped to look for a couple of geocaches first. One of them already had some cachers already on scene - all three of us looked and found it eventually. Drove to the viewpoint only to discover it was still too foggy. Then I suddenly realized my iPhone was missing! Looked all through my gear and the car - nothing! Drove back to that last geocache location - nothing! Drove to another nearby geocache we had just been to - nothing! Panic setting in now! Decided to check one more time at that last geocache - Viola! Found it after a little more thorough searching - laying on the ground right where it fell out of my hoody pouch! WHEW!
Time to go home now before I forget where I live!!!!
Pat and I took a quick drive up to Winchester Bay so Pat could get some pics of the Umpqua Lighthouse (oh yeah, there was a new geocache to be found there as well!)
She also got some pics of the historic Coast Guard building nearby which now hosts a museum.