We have cautiously started to travel again. We have had our shots and were ready to go. The last several days we’ve traveled the Oregon coast. We have walked the beaches ISO (in search of). We have searched for Dungeness crab, driftwood, new friends, lighthouse, tide pools and adventure. What were our results?
Dungeness Crabs? Debbie is thankful that they didn’t have to go catch their own. There was some talk of renting a boat, trap and bait but luckily after discussion that you would be in the harbor with the real boats – purchasing from a boat seemed sufficient.
Driftwood? – Joyce tried to bring home a tree but settled for some smaller pieces.
Light house? Check but they would not let us in
Tidal Pools? Check – Debbie even touched an amoeba.
New friends? Check out our pictures of friends on the dock
What about adventure? Well, they found the Spruce Goose. Please tell me that you know about the Spruce Goose. Who would have thought it was in Oregon?
But the real adventure was with Aaron. He was gracious enough to meet the group in Florence to ride dune buggies. Joyce thought 30 minutes was not long enough and that maybe we should go for an hour. Aaron said that 30 minutes would be long enough but Joyce was not sure.
As the dune buggy sat at the top of a huge hill poised to race downwards, Joyce leaned over to Debbie and whispered is it 30 minutes yet? Before answering Debbie wiped her face now covered in sand adhered to her face by sun screen, spit out the sand from her mouth, checked her watch and said that it had only been 15 minutes. She and Joyce wished it had been 30 minutes but knew they were in for another 15 minutes of nonstop roll coaster dune bugging. Debbie When they arrive back at the office Debbie staggered off and said that’s one thing off my bucket list.
Hats off to Aaron as he took the ride with no sunglasses. We felt he was probably spitting out sand hours later because we knew we were.
