Friday, April 27th - The Oregon Coast

In 2004, on our way "north to Alaska", we drove up the Oregon coast, stopping to camp in two different Oregon state parks. It was a spectacular drive along highway US-101. Thursday evening when we ate dinner in the historic "Bayfront of Newport", MA thought she recognized a place that we had stopped and eaten lunch back in 2004. Most of the time I have a very good recollection of these events and can recall easily. I had a gap in my memory for this place. When MA had me drive up the hill and showed me where we parked the motorhome in 2004, everything clicked for me. I remembered the walk down the hill to eat at the "Whale's Tail" for lunch. So, today we revisited the Whale's Tail for lunch. We both had the Dungeness Crab salad on toasted English muffin with chowder and salad. Quite tasty although not very filling.

We drove north up to Lincoln City and MA took a long walk on the beach while I took a nap in the Jeep. On the way back to our campsite in Newport, we took the slower Coast road. We stopped several times for pix. This is a panorama looking south. The point of land at the top right is the Yaquina Head. That is the location of the lighthouse near our campground.