Thursday 7/26/2012
Looking north from Boiler Bay.Couldn't see much so I got out my zoom lens. |
A little better picture of the coast and fog. |
Zooming in a little more. |
Joe and others with binoculars at Boiler Bay. |
There were several boats out in the bay looking for something. |
We looked also,but didn't see anything. |
Later found out they were whale watcing boats. |
Flying brown pelicans. |
I got bored with not seeing anything on the water and found a wild flower. |
Just down the road further we entered into the town of Depoe Bay. |
We found a place to park on the main shopping and bay area of Depoe Bay. |
I told Joe there was just one shop I wanted to visit. While I was in that one shop, Joe strolled down the street. When we met back up again, he told me about a chowder shop that had free samples. |
After a sample, we decided to share a cup of the chowder. |
The Bay Walk Cafe didn't look like much, but the clam chowder was very good. It was a extremely creamy clam chowder. Yum! |
Joe liked the sign, " Soon To Be Famous" |
After our snack of chowder we walked down the street to Depoe Bay's Harbor. |
Looking down to the world's smallest harbor of Depoe Bay. |
We crossed the street in Depoe Bay and looked under the Depoe Bay Historic Bridge designed by the famous architect Conde McCullough, who has designed many other Oregon bridges. |
We watched the whale watching boat go out. We could have been on that boat. |
Next to the bridge is the Depoe Bay Whale Center. We took turns going in to check out the information on whales.( Mallery couldn't go in). |
Outside the Whale Center was this board with how many whales had been spotted each month. 47 whales had been seen for the month of July so far. |
We continued south on Hwy. 101 and stopped at Rocky Creek. |
Views south, |
down, |
and north. |
We found a path to walk on, so we took it to see where it went too. Mallery needed to walk also. |
We walked past an artist painting an ocean scenery. |
A lot of kelp (I think), |
and moss on the rocks below. |
View at the end of the path. |
A cove with carved out holes in the sea wall. |
A private beach if you can find a way to get down there. |
We headed back to the car. |
Picnic tables and benches were also located along the path at Rock Creek. To be continued: |
Good pictures. Beautiful cliffs.
ReplyDeleteThank you Anonymous. The Oregon coastline is beautiful!
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