Wind Damage and Bob Takes a Backseat

The September 7th east wind event that triggered the massive wildfires in Oregon, brought down hundreds of trees in our Cape Perpetua area.  In the campground, over 100 trees fell, and miraculously, no one was injured.  The winds gusted to 65 mph on the cape.  Because the trees have naturally buttressed themselves to storm winds from the southwest, they were vulnerable to the unusual winds from the east.  Gail and I hiked to the top of Cape Perpetua on Thursday, and the higher we got the more downed trees we came upon.  Workers had cut a passage for the trail, but there are many sketchy looking leaners left.

Photos can't capture the amount of devastation to be seen up there.  

I have been relegated to sitting in the back when in Gail's car.

Wednesday, we met Lorie and dog Juno for a beach walk.  On the path down to the beach is this new monument to the Agate Beach Surf Club.  Steve was a long time member.  The club honored him with a paddle out and spreading of his ashes in 2009. Steve would have been 57 today.