Near the Beach (2 city block walk to the water)
Surfable (Nice sandy beach)
Hot Showers (Really really nice after getting all sandy/salty in the cold surf)
Not too pricey (Only $17 for camping, or $21 for elec and water!)
Last night we went on up a great little paved national forest road, found several boondock campsites. But, We wont be using them ;)
We are set to be happy-camping until it gets chillyy
Was 43 degrees when we woke up. . .. oh boy ;) -Joe
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So, Joe decided, looking at Google Earth, that there really wasn't going to be much for beaches anymore. At least not for a looong time. So, we went back north. Yes, we back-tracked about 100 miles. So we're now south of Waldport by maybe 5-10 miles. We're at a national forest campground right now parked basically right next to the beach! We have a view of the beach! So nice. We'll be moving to a state campground in a day or two where there will be showers. So, even though we went back north, we'll get to surf for a couple weeks, then we'll head for southern OR and towards California's redwoods.
Here are some random pics.
-Miranda
A lot of the trees have moss covered branches. Fuzzy trees!
A not so great photo of the sand dunes. We were driving around on this dune and 4 others.
A picture of me in the dune buggy on the beach. We'll get a video or two up hopefully soon...
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Miranda and I rented a 2 seat Dune Buggy to go play in the Oregon Dunes Area. It was a good time
The dunes go up to 100+ feet above the sands, and you can cruise all around. Also had trails to go to the ocean shore and cruise along. it was a good time. Definately worth the money to do once, but NEVER again Too expensive ($195 for 2 hours!!) Check it out on GOOGLE EARTH: (43.5688°,-124.209°)Miranda was an excellent driver, And i didn't roll it, so it was all good.
we looked for a place to stay in the Dune Park, and found a campground right on the coast!! but when we looked at the water, it was HuGELY algea bloom.. (really gross) so, we werent gonna surf there. instead, headed for town. We're currently staying at an overpriced RV campground in Coos Bay
They said they had wifi, but, no workie.
The showers better work though, have 2 pounds of sand to remove ;)
-Joe
PS Here are some relatively old pics. Will try to get dune buggy pics/video up in the near future
Our little bench and fire pit that Joe made at our boondocking spot.
Our little area in national forest where we stayed over Labor Day
Went on a walk near one of the Dune campgrounds. This is a nutria. Sort of like a muskrat, but it's native to South America.
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Well, we're staying in our first parking lot RV park. It has fast internet though which we need in order to get more work done. So, we stayed here one night to top up on power and water and get work stuff done, then we're heading out back into a National Forest Recreation Area. There are sand dunes and such. It looks very neat. Hopefully we can find a good spot.
I'll try to get some photos up soon of where we were.
-Miranda
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I figured I'd post about our Creepy Beach Creature incident 4 days ago.
I was walking to shore from surfing (luckily had boots on for the first time) And suddenly (in a foot of water) was surrounded by thousands of Small Creatures swooshing by my legs!!! They were all 1 - 3 inches across And i was freaking out
Miranda wouldn't believe me, we went back out and i told her there were thousands of crabs beneath our feet.. Just wait. . So we sat and waited, finally a wave with enough force to uncover them came, and bam, there's a thousand creatures! Now, my Wife, being the brilliant person that she is, Fisheries and Wildlife and all, surprised me when she claimed that they were baby TURTLES!!! I GOT SOOO EXCITED!! OMG this is the coolest EVER!!!! But after 10 minutes of staring at the creatures, she realized, what looked like Hind Legs paddling, Were Front Claw-PAddles and a Face rather than a butt-tail. . (Ugly things) Any way, I just found a page that shows them: BEACH CREATURES[ 2 comments ] ( 12 views )
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