Port Orford, OR

Port 6/27/2022

Phil and I drove up to Port Orford to have a look around and have lunch. We found the Port Orford Coast Guard Life Station Museum. The buildings were closed, but we got to look around the outside.

 

Oceanside RV Park in Gold Beach, OR

6/23/2022
Another travel day, 31 miles up the coast to Oceanside RV Park in Gold Beach, OR. This park sits just offshore at the confluence of the Rouge River and the Pacific Ocean. Although we were told we would have 30-amp spaces, the park had just gone through an upgrade and all of our sites were 30/50. The sites were nice, interior roads were a little rough, but kept people slow. Nice newer rec hall and big enough that we had some games and meetings there.
 

This little squirrel is the type that burrows in the ground, much like a prairie dog. They were all over the grassy area behind our rig, attached to the small craft airport next to the park.

Oregon has many older bridges like this one, which is a work of art as well as a bridge that still functions.

Up close for a better look at the detail

Inside one of the tunnels on the bridge

Seals or Sea Lions basking in the sunlight in the bay

A view of the campground and airport from across the bay

This is the bar, where the Rouge River meets the Pacific Ocean

This guy is trying to surf the bar

The ocean side of the park, notice all driftwood

Our rig and some of the others in the caravan

Samuel S Boardman State Park-Lone Ranch Beach

 

6/20/2022

The Samuel S Boardman State Park is just up the road from Driftwood. So, we all made picnic lunches and carpooled up to one of the beaches called Lone Ranch Beach. Samuel S Boardman was a Senator and is a distant relative of Phil’s.

Turns out we had a group of ladies who became known as the Rockettes, collectors of rock, agates and various other shinny objects found on beaches. They had a blast collecting their various finds.