OREGON COAST, Day Two

I love the Oregon coast.  

Of course it helped that the weather was beautiful.  Sunny and while not what I would call warm, at least not bone chilling.  

I took a nice walk this morning. John has a miserably sore neck, so he stayed in the motel while he waited for the Naprosyn to kick in.  The neighborhood around our hotel is eclectic.  Pre-fab houses, little houses the size of a small RV, beach-style McMansions, craftsman bungalows.  

Then we were off to check out as many beaches as we could.  

Our first big stop was at Heceta lighthouse beach.  Like every beach we stopped at, this one was clean, fine sand, big vistas.  We also took a nice hike up to the lighthouse.

Then we took an extra little hike at the top,  I was a bit reluctant to do this one after I saw the sign about the bears, though. 

Our second major stop was Strawberry Fields, which is another beach that has a nice parking area with a grassy park at the road level, then a trail down, in this case, to tide pools and seal rocks.  

The third big place was Devil's Cauldron, (which looks a lot like toilet bowl at Hanauma Bay) and had a nice little hiking area around the water.  

After that,

we went into the town of Yachets and had lunch (halibut sandwich and clam chowder) at a cute little place that had a tent set up outside with picnic tables underneath.  

After lunch, (3:30) we headed back to Florence and stopped at one more beautiful beach to dip our feet in the water.  I was shocked at how much colder the water is up here.  It's so cold in CA, I just didn't imagine it would be so much colder here. I loved this beach .  

Our second to last stop of the day was at Fred Mayer, which must be the Wal-Mart of Oregon, so John could get some Ben-gay and an ice pack for his neck.  By the time we got back to Florence, the fog had come in and you could hardly see the bridge, though the time we finished eating, it was all gone.  Love these ghostly bridge pictures.  

We had dinner tonight at Spice, a seafood-pan Asian fusion restaurant. John had scallops in green curry sauce, and I had scallops wrapped in bacon with an Asian flavored barbecue sauce.  We followed that up with some locally made ice cream cones.  We have done NO shopping.  I can't believe it.