Heading inland

I have left the beach where it was rainy and cold and headed inland. It is hot here! What a change with half a days drive going from 60 degrees to over 80. I need to stock up on water!

Had a fairly uneventful and easy drive to eastern Oregon. Beautiful scenery through the mountains. One event shook things up a bit. As I was heading up a long steep section over the mountains, the pickup ahead of me swerved over into the next lane alerting me to a problem. Standing in my lane was a doe and two very tiny babies. The doe was confused after almost getting run over by the pickup and wasn't sure if she wanted to continue across the road or turn back. Fortunately, I wasn't going very fast and it was uphill so I put my flashers on and slowed to a stop fairly close to her hoping she would get the idea that she need to move. She decided to go back the way she came and the babies followed her off the road and we all started up the hill again.

I made it to my campground for the night fairly early and after a green smoothy for lunch, I cleaned the bugs off the front of my RV. Glad there was no blood there.

Interesting beach finds

I found a neat trail going from Agate Beach into Newport last week. Here is a picture of it. It is a short but well maintained trail. It is called the Agate Beach to Bay Trail but seems to end long before you get to the bay. A pleasant walk though.



I have found numerous interesting things on my morning beach walks. This is a jellyfish I saw on the beach Saturday.



Here is a photo of a starfish I saw this morning. Actually I saw three of them in the tidal pool area. The tide was way out there this morning and I had a very interesting walk.



The weather has been rather grey and cool here lately. It was sunny and warm until people started coming for the 4th of July weekend, then it turned cloudy and cool. No heavy rain fortunately but not very nice for the weekenders. Today all the weekenders are gone and the weather is clearing up a bit.