The Call of the Sea

I descend from seafaring folk from Nantucket and it's in my blood - I love to go to the ocean. We're spending 4 days in our camping trailer at a place where we've never been, and we are loving it!  It's the closest to the ocean we've ever stayed.  Here is the ocean just 50 feet from our door....

Note - all these photos are from my iPhone as I forgot the card reader for my "good" camera. :-)

We went to a beach today where we'd found agates before but with the storms here there was no beach, just surf!  Next time... 

Then we went to lunch at one of our favorite places, called "Georgies" - it's right on the beach with a great view of the ocean and the Yaquina Head lighthouse.  Then on to see Yaquina Bay lighthouse and get a photo.. we were treated to some good light on it's face!

Then we drove through the park and got this great shot of Yaquina Bay Bridge.  

This is an "artsy" one I did of the bridge as we were going over it earlier...

Here are a couple of photos from the historic Newport Bayfront - Mo's makes legendary clam chowder, it's a fun place to go to walk along and see all the art galleries, little eateries, taverns and souvenir shops.  It's a working fishing village with boats coming and going, fish packing plants and all the smells to go with it.  

I had to go down and visit the sea lions... man are they loud!!

We then drove north and headed out to the point to visit Yaquina Head Lighthouse.  Oh, I love this lighthouse!  It's the most beautiful thing ever.  Here are some different views of it.  Isn't it pretty!?

Then we returned "home" to our cozy little trailer and I took a few photos to try to give you the idea of how close we are to the ocean here.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing our photos.  We're having a great time - and are planning to see if we can stay here again in the Spring on my birthday.  Thanks for visiting and ((hugs)).. Teresa