The Amazing Oregon Coast

 This is where we will be living for a few months now.  This view is right off of the back of the pad where the coach is parked.  The nice grassy area also has a horseshoe pit, big fire ring and a plastic hydrant (for dogs).

 Not too far south from us is this magnificent view of the coastline.

 We pulled off of hwy 101 and took this little road down to the beach.  We thought our doxie Chloe was getting car sick (not!).  But instead we got treated to this awesome view.  Wow.

We daily take a walk on the beach.  Today we ran across a couple of sections of beach with these roundy formations.  There is nothing inside but sand as well.

 The size of this fungus is approx the diameter of a baseball.  It's the first time I saw this type and they were just emerging from the soil.

 Sandy Ridge trail is a nationally known mountain bike trail.  The weekend of August 9th was the site of a race with as much as 250 to 300 riders.  It attracted professional riders.  You can see some of the vendor tents here.  Some of the bikes here are worth $5000 to $6000.

 Here's the finish line.  Although out of the frame the time keepers were just behind the tree on the left hand side.

Although we are leaving Wildwood Recreation for the Oregon coast we must not forget that it IS a Black Bear and Mountain Lion Habitat!  Cool!

 We saw this pretty cool fungus on a recent walk.  It's about the size of half an angelfood cake and it's hard to the touch.

 A couple of evenings ago this mother and what we think are twins came out of the forrest to snack.  I took this picture through the window of our coach.  Unfortunately the camera thought it needed a flash but the window of the RV effected the clarity.

 These ducks were off of the boardwalk that winds itself through the wetlands here at Wildwood.  The Wildwood Wetland Trail and Boardwalk is a 1 mile loop.

 This big tree growing around a giant rock is found at the trail head of the Bolder Ridge Trail in Wildwood.

What we've noticed in this part of Oregon is all the nursery's.  I think we found the Dr. Seuss trees!

 Cathy is posing alongside a great sculpture of Steelhead and Chinook at the beginning of the Stream Watch Trail.  The Salmon river is about 100 feet behind her through the forest.  Although we haven't seen any (yet) the Salmon are expected to be coming up the river this month.

This is where we work!  What a great day use park.

 This is where we are going to be in about a month from now.  The Sea Perch RV resort in Yachats, OR.  It was pretty foggy the day we were there due to some unusually hot weather down Eugene way.  There are only about 25 spaces here and the owners put a lot of money into it on the idea of selling the spaces.... then the economy dumped out.  It has a very nice clubhouse with big screen tv's, poofy leather chairs, pool and foosball tables, exercise room and a full kitchen (has granite counter tops).  Pretty classy.  The front desk/office has a designers touch.  Nice.

 I saw this carved tree while walking to downtown Yachats to get seafood dinner from out motel.  I've got to get more information on it.

 This is a shot taken from one end of Yachats looking towards this bay.  There are people walking on the beachy area.  I wonder if they were looking for shell fish.

 The Pacific Ocean right off the first row of RV's at Sea Perch RV resort.

I liked the Art Deco posts of the raised bridge.  We are North of Yachats at Newport, OR.

Same bridge but before we got to it.  

 This is the trash truck that services the park.  It's from Boring, OR so you can imagine the business signs to be seen in this small town.  And it IS bliss when they come right after a busy weekend.

 This giant slug is actually an invasive european specis.  Favorite food to eat is live plants.  Originally I thought it was a "bananna" slug but not only is their coloring yellow or dark green but they only eat dead plants .  I had to move this one out into the open for the picture and it's just now beginning to stretch out.  I'm using my hand for scale.

 Not too far West down Hwy 26 is this field with barb wire so you can't walk up to this "yard art".  He's obviously shaking his hand at something in frustration.  But it is private property!

This flowering foxglove also can be seen in white around Wildwood Park.  Digitalis comes from this plant but it's also listed as poisonous.  Apparently you don't want to eat it.

This is Wildwood Recreation Site.  It's a day use park (dawn to dusk) with big ramada's, smaller picnic areas, ball field and walking trails.  It's in a rainforest area so there are lots big ferns and just about all the trees are covered with moss.  The Salmon river runs through a portion of the park so we are anxious to see salmon running up the river which is supposed to start sometime this month.

 Cathy is standing on a walkway bridge over the Salmon river.  There is a section in the park with picnic tables and bbq grills that are located close to the water's edge.

 This is one of the coolest attractions of Wildwood.  A portion of the Salmon runs past this glass window.  You get to see fish, crawdads, fresh water snails and whatever's in the water come past this window.

 This spider walked through our camp.  It's known at a White Flower Spider.  He's about the size of a nickel  including the legs.  Apparently they don't web.  They hunt.

 This is the underside base root system of a big tree that fell over.  Huge!

Vegetation everywhere you look.  Notice the moss covered tree limbs.  The old saying is that moss grows on the North side of a tree.  But what about when the moss goes all the way around.... everything?