March 25 - April 1 marks the Spring whale watch week on the coast here in Oregon. Cely and I had not been to the coast for a while so we decided to make a short trip. We drove over to Newport then swung up to Lincoln City. Cely wanted to see what Lincoln City was like. We had driven through but never really stopped. The day was gray and always on the verge of raining. We didn't actually get hit by the rain. It wasn't actually cold but on the whole not a cheery day. Lincoln City was not such a great tourist stop. We parked the car in a public lot and tried to visit some shops but the shops were so spread out and away from the coast we did not persevere too long. We stopped and walked along the beach there for a little bit. The beach was more rocky that others we have visited so far. This was also beach cleanup weekend so there were a lot of people who were doing the good work of picking up litter on the beach. Cely and I did our part by picking up a couple of cool rocks from the beach. I don't think they will miss them. Some of the rocks have holes in them like they were drilled into. We could not figure out how they came about.
Lincoln City Beach
After our short stop we jumped back in the car and headed back in the direction of Depoe Bay. We stopped just north of Depoe Bay at a sighting stop at Boiler Bay . It is a beautiful spot where coast is very rocky. As we walked to the rail to look out for whales, Cely and I were crossing some wet rather muddy grass and all of a sudden Cely's feet swept out from under her. She went down, knocking my feet sideways, and I went down on top of her. She got pretty muddy and wet. Fortunately it wasn't that cold so we did stick around to see if we could any whales. We didn't but I guess others saw about 11 whales that day. The visibility was great even though it was so gray and cloudy out so we could see a vast expanse of ocean.
Boiler Bay
As you can see the coast is just beautiful here. So beautiful that you can even stay out here and look at it even when you are muddy and wet. The only wild life we saw were these gulls that Cely photographed. As we drove back to Corvallis it began to rain so all in all we timed it right.
We are thinking about going to see Inside Man as a matinee today but that is the only movie we have planned for the weekend. Yesterday night and Friday night was devoted to our latest addiction, DVDs of the cancelled television series, Angel. We are into the fourth season and are in between discs now. There is only one more season to watch. It should keep us busy for a couple of weeks but we are already planning to watch the Buffy the Vampire series when we finish this one!
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Remembrance from Junor High Science class: Aren't the holes formed when the rock was formed around a ball of mineral and then the mineral was later dissolved leaving the hole? Or was I thinking about my pimples the day they covered that and I now recall it incorrectly?
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