Steve, Lorie, Shadow, and I went for a hike up a canyon with some huge cedar, spruce, and fir trees. It was oozing moisture and was prime fungi territory. Here Steve is showing us how to find cantarelle mushrooms for our Thanksgiving dinner. Cantarelles grow only around spruce trees.
These are not cantarelles. The purple color suggests, "Eat me and die."
Sarah (standing) from Alaska and her friend Joanne from Seattle. Sarah's last name is Williams, not Palin, even though she did have to sit in meetings with her.
Steve prepares the cantarelles we picked.Across the street from Steve's and Lorie's home is Yaquina Head. This is the view looking south on the way out to the lighthouse.
Logan, the older of their two sons, is 16 and quite possibly going to MIT next year. Currrently, he is assisting a Phd after school with software development for hydrophones that study a variety of oceanic sounds.
Looking down the free-standing spiral staircase made entirely of cast iron (you can tell I paid attention to the ranger).
Early Sunday morning Steve and I drove up to Nelscott Reef in Lincoln City to watch the annual tow in surfing contest. This was a stop at Whaler's Cove on the way up. This wave is much bigger than it looks.
The surf contest was not visible in the morning due to fog. The reef is about a half mile offshore. Steve decided to take me for a hike to Drift Creek Falls about 12 miles back in the mountains. This is a suspension bridge crossing the chasm above the falls.
This is the waterfall as seen from the suspenson bridge.
The waterfall and the bridge above.
Sunset from Steve's and Lorie's deck with the lighthouse in the distance.
Looking south from their deck over Agate Beach.
I am now a sushi convert. Here we are at Sada's sushi restaurant, which Lorie claims has the best sushi on the west coast. That's Aaron on the right. He is an eighth grader, champion table tennis player, sax and guitar player, and has a real feel good kind of personality and sense of humor.
One of the sushi plates - yummmm!
Across the street, the bull sea lions were raising a ruckus as they established the pecking order for room on the boat docks. Well, that about sums up my trip as I am out of photos fit to print. Thank you, Oregon family, for your wonderful hospitality! 5 stars!
2 comments:
Wow! What fantastic scenery, Bob. Andria and I are just kind of overwhelmed by the comparison (or lack thereof) with Belleville. Very cool that you saw Gerry Lopez - I think I remember seeing him in "Riding Giants." Hey, maybe when you're out here we can take you to see the majestic laser light show depicting the birth of Jesus at our local treasure, Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. :) Other than that, I got nothing to compare with the Oregon coastline.
Great pictures!! We marveled at how tall that bridge by the waterfall must have been. Awesome pictures of the ocean views, too.
We'll have to look up some sushi places in Belleville for you...maybe "Night Moves" can make you a plate? Hmmm....
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