Oregon Coast Revisited

What can I say we love the Oregon Coast. We only went for a couple of days this time but the weather couldn't have been better. Jeff's brother Daniel also came along since he hadn't been in years. We visited Jeff's uncle Dave and his family again which was a lot of fun. We only get to see them about once a year so it's nice to get in an extra visit. Dave played tour guide again and on the first day he took us on a hike of the dunes and the beach. We did some beach combing and Jeff's cousin Seabre actually found a message in a bottle. It wasn't anything super cool but how often do you find a message in a bottle. We also took the opportunity to fly our kite, which I never got a picture of but you can use your imagination. Actually the picture above is of Jeff and his brother flying the kite.

The next day Dave took us out to Cape Perpetua/ Neptune (which is where he and his wife MJ got married) and we explored the tide pools.

We also went agate hunting. They are all over the place you just have to know where to look and since Dave has more experience at this than we do, he always spotted them but never told us where they were and then he would walk away leaving us looking for a needle in a hay stack so to speak.

This is a picture of the rocks on the coast. I think they are so beautiful with all the different shell pieces and colored rocks.

Here are some of the smaller agates we found.

This is the beginning of a funny incident. Jeff had been hiking around and not paying attention to the waves and he got splashed with a wave. I couldn't help myself but laugh and so I caught Jeff pouting in this picture.

Not long after that Jeff and I were on our way back and he was trying to take us on a short cut near the water. The plan was to hurry past this one rock before another wave came. He hurried past but I was stuck in a cold shower of salt water. The wave was so large that I knocked me off of the rock I had been standing on and I was half choking cause "my mouth was open and everything" (that line was from Shrek). So that teaches me for laughing at Jeff when he got sprayed (however I got it much worse than he did and we both laughed at me).

This is a better picture cause you can see that I literally got wet from head to toe. Luckily it was warm so I layed out on some rocks to dry. Other than the cold shower it was a really fun trip. The coast is so hit and miss but we went in February and caught some of the best whether they have. I wonder if we'll ever make it down there during the summer. We always say we will but then the summer comes and goes and we haven't gone. But this summer Jeff and I are going to be doing a lot of hiking and camping so we'll see.