...we've set down in a place where I think we'll have sun and signal... and we may just stay here for a couple weeks... the itch is eased up... and... slow... has, finally, taken over :o)***
Put the Raider on the Ground when we pulled into Tillicim Beach... and rode it that evening... and loaded it back up (when we left)... wet... not having roaded it again in the four days we spent there... all she did was rain!
A couple of times we'd get a blue hole above us... but about the time we thought we could take a ride... that puppy would slam shut and the rain would come again... woosh!
So... we fired up the Cummins and made a couple of circles doin' the tourista thing... with a roof over us.
Pulled into an overlook south of Heceda Head Lighthouse and just north of the Sea Lion caves to try and capture a photo of the lighthouse though the mist...
while tryin' to do that, I noticed there was a constant, odd noise you could hear over the wind and the crashing surf, far below us...
Got to looking at this beach, several hundred yards away and below...
There was this odd color to the beach... the thing was brown, from one end to the other...
The Beach was Brown, 'cause it was covered with Sea Lion hair... 'course the hair was attached to Sea Lions...
See that big patch of brown on the right side? at the back of that cove?
Hard to get a clear pic on a hazy, misty, day... I do my best... but that "Patch"... was solid Sea Lions...
By careful, sectional counting and cowboy extrapolation(Taking stones out of one pocket... and puttin' 'em in the other)... I'd guess there was the better part of 1,500 Sea Lions layin' about on that beach, and in the water... an you could ber 'em barking, or whatever you call it when a Sea Lion squalls... clear up on top of the cliffs, over the wind and the roar of the surf...
Pretty cool.
Then, while trying without success to hunt up an Agate or two on some beaches noted for such finds... we ran across, what I take to be some lazy Harbor seals... leastways by their color...
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| **Check out the one Harbor Seal... Checkin' ME out :o) ** |
The next day, Since the weather was even less 'cuddly'...we made a circle out to Cottage Grove to visit a friend of Heidi's and pick up a package of mail we'd had shipped to her house... rolling out hwy 38 east of Reedsport along the Umpqua River is an awfull pretty drive in the late fall...
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| *Fall along the Umpqua River in Oregon* |
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| *There's something about Old Boats...* |
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| *Mural in Florence Oregon* |
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| *More Fall along the Umpqua River in Oregon* |
... and wonder if the trailer would still be there... as the wind had been howling in the early afternoon... when we left... with the surf just thundering...
Since I didn't start this post with The Eagle is Lost At Sea I guess you're knowin' it was whole, when we got back to it, 'bout 11:30 that night... yup... in the Rain! :o)
It had quit as we rolled east up that river... but only 'cause we drove out of it... goin' back... we drove right back in to it... This kid is startin' to look like a prune... even the gulls are walkin'... they claim it's too wet to fly!
Now that we're gonna set still... for a while... I'll catch up the last several days... over the next couple...
Headin' South... Slowly...
Brian
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1 comment:
amazing pictures Brian- well done
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