more magnificent Oregon coast

As reluctant as we were to leave Bandon, we had a lot more coast to see. This sea gull came to the backdoor to say goodbye.


One last look at the Bandon coastline...



Then we were in for a strange and beautiful day! The heat wave the west coast experienced created a huge wall of fog over parts of the ocean. In some places, we were in the thick of it, other times OVER it, other times beside it.





We happened upon some seals, including a newborn and her mama. It was just an hour old (the naturalists there told us) and we could see the umbilical cord as it wiggled around its mama. Another baby was a day old. They were the lucky ones. The day before 3 Orcas (think Shamu) came up on the beach and ate some. While we were ohhing and ahhing, an immature bald eagle swooped down for the afterbirth.



Then we visited a beautiful botanical garden along the coast.








These beautiful sheep were grazing on their beautiful field, with a beautiful ocean behind them. Well...it's somewhere under all that fog!


Back out in the sun, though you can see the wall of fog in the distance...


And speaking of fog, here's a fog capped mountain.






Here we're on TOP of the fog.


And... beside the fog. Look how thick!


The kids pleaded at every potentially accessible beach to get out. Cliffs are beautiful, but you can't play chicken with the waves on a cliff. This was a good beach to let them have at it. If you look closely, you can see Isaac fist pumping again. It was him against the waves the whole trip. Oh, and yes...that is the wall of fog ahead.


And finally, the sun started to go down on another beautiful day on the Oregon coast. The next day we headed back into California.