Next morning Mark and Tam were in charge of choosing our activities for the day. We drove south to Sea Lion Caves, stopping along the way to take pictures of the most picturesque lighthouse on the coast, Heceta Head Lighthouse. Because of it's location, and the white and pink colors against the green background, it was very beautiful!!
Sea Lion Caves were fun to see. The rocks inside the caves were covered with lazy sea lions. Then we drove down to Florence, stopped at several roadside chainsaw carvings shops and ate at a buffet in an Indian Casino. We hadn't really had very much luck finding good places to eat so far on our trip and decided to try our luck at the casino. It was the best meal we had had so far on the trip!!
(This next paragraph is word for word from Mark's emails:) "Thursday evening after dinner at the house we decided to take a drive up the Yachats river. This turned out to be a really good idea. It was dusk and we were in and out of forests, so the light made for one of those magic forest evenings. Right off we ran into a herd of oreo cows. The real deal. Don't know if they have oreo cows anywhere but in Oregon, but Oregon's got them. The fields were white with blackberries in blossom. Wish we'd been there during picking season. Several times we saw fields of elk. At the end of the road, before it crossed a creek into private property we found a beautiful covered bridge. Far as I could tell the cover served no purpose other than being beautiful. I'm not sure what there is about covered bridges, but they do seem to strike some kind of peaceful chord in us. Next to the bridge was a huge, ancient, moss covered giant of a tree. Somehow the combination of the red bridge and the green primordial looking tree made you just want to stand there and soak it all in for a while. We got lots of pictures. On the drive home we saw more elk, spooked the oreo cows again and ended up back at the beach house at sunset. We drove to an overlook and watched the sunset behind a spout hole that sprayed water upwards each time the tide came in. It was a beautiful evening".
(This next paragraph is word for word from Mark's emails:) "Thursday evening after dinner at the house we decided to take a drive up the Yachats river. This turned out to be a really good idea. It was dusk and we were in and out of forests, so the light made for one of those magic forest evenings. Right off we ran into a herd of oreo cows. The real deal. Don't know if they have oreo cows anywhere but in Oregon, but Oregon's got them. The fields were white with blackberries in blossom. Wish we'd been there during picking season. Several times we saw fields of elk. At the end of the road, before it crossed a creek into private property we found a beautiful covered bridge. Far as I could tell the cover served no purpose other than being beautiful. I'm not sure what there is about covered bridges, but they do seem to strike some kind of peaceful chord in us. Next to the bridge was a huge, ancient, moss covered giant of a tree. Somehow the combination of the red bridge and the green primordial looking tree made you just want to stand there and soak it all in for a while. We got lots of pictures. On the drive home we saw more elk, spooked the oreo cows again and ended up back at the beach house at sunset. We drove to an overlook and watched the sunset behind a spout hole that sprayed water upwards each time the tide came in. It was a beautiful evening".
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