Greg and I spent President’s Day Weekend in the Newport area. We drove down Saturday and stopped in Depoe Bay for lunch. The weather was pretty cold, wet, and stormy.
After lunch we went out to that spit of land you can see the in the previous picture. The waves splashed against the rocks and the air was filled with water:
We drove south and stopped at Rocky Creek State Scenic Viewpoint. The weather was really deteriorating by this point:
Even though we had plenty of daylight left, the weather made us want to be inside so we headed to Beverly Beach State Park and checked in to our yurt:
We spent the rest of the afternoon inside, reading and being warm and dry. We were very close to the beach and I went out there for sunset but lasted about 30 seconds in the cold wind before beating a hasty retreat back to the yurt to make a nice hot dinner on the campstove:
Sunday morning the weather was a little less awful. After a leisurely morning we took a walk around the campground. It’s a huge campground, but most of it was closed off for the season.
We drove into Newport and had lunch at Mo’s. It started hailing after lunch so we didn’t really want to be outside. We headed over to the Hatfield Marine Science Center where they have an octopus as well as tidepool replicas you can see.
The wind was not letting up and it was pretty miserable outside. So we went to a coffee shop and hung out for awhile, drinking warm tea and reading. Afterward we went down to Nye Beach to find a geocache and got a view of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, which we would be visiting the following day:
One last glimpse of the stormy windy weather at Nye Beach before heading to Rogue for dinner:
Monday’s weather was much better weather with less wind and more sun. We headed to Yaquina Head where a 93-foot-tall lighthouse from 1873 still stands:
We went down to the stairway to Cobble Beach, seen here from above:
Our timing was good and we were able to see the tidepools:
The other cool part about this beach are all these polished stones. When the waves wash over these rocks it makes the COOLEST sound. The beach was protected from the wind so we sat there enjoying the warm sunshine and the sound of the stones:
After that we climbed Salal Hill, which has a pretty great view. But the wind was picking up so we didn’t linger up there:
We stopped at Cape Foulweather:
Then we had lunch in Depot Bay at the Sea Hag. The weather was a lot sunnier than it had been two days earlier. We stood and enjoyed the waves for awhile before heading home:
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