Tuesday Aug 11
MARIANA' S TRENCH We spent another day in Newport. At the Mark Hatfield Marine Museum-connected with the U of O we saw some video of unersea earthquakes. They bounce up like foaming shaving cream but do not blowreally far becaues of the intense water pressure. They are able to study the deepest part of the ocean--the Mariana Trench- which is a bit deeper under water than the peak of Mt Everest is above sea level. They don't have equipment that allows divers to withstand the pressure of going down so low but they have remote operated vehicles that go down low with their cameras. It is totally dark down tahere there but they find that life continues and plants live off of chemosynthesis (because there in no sun for photosynthesis). The fish get around from feel and maybe sonar. Some of them are totally white because they don't need to camoflage themselves because there is no light.
JETTY POWER- We visted South Beach State Park and walked the trail to the South Jetty. Remember these structures were laid perpendicular to the shore to creat a safe harbor for ships. As a result of this they caught debris and sand. This sand builds up the shoreline. Our path to the ocean was clearly marked with where the shoreline was in 1899, in 940, and in 1974. It is a good walk between the markers.
We viisited a lighthouse in the NewEngland style in which the keeper and his family lived in a house at the bottom of the light. This is a pretty fancy house and has been restored to a glory.
There doesn't seem to be any immigrant population here. David noticed that all of the chambermaids are young locals. Local population that we meet as well as some Minnesotans and Montanans have more traditional values than I had considered.
Showing posts with label OR coast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OR coast. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
ontheroad- OR coast -
Monday August 10
Yesterday we saw Yachats and Newport and I noticed that all along these areas are long coastal beaches with most lodgings being all oceanfront rooms at more reasonable prices than I would ever expect for real on-the ocean rooms where one slides open the glass door to the balcony and listens day and night to the ocean rolling in and morning seabirds.
We did some dune climbing at state parks seashores. These dunes can be up to 500 feet high and while we didn't climb these, I struggled up some fairly steep sand and would never had made it had there not been beach grass to grab on to and pull myself up. We saw some open trucks taking tourists on vehicle powered trips up the dunes.
Ar the coastal trail at Yachats, we came upon a fine attached in cement to the ground binoculars to look out of the ocean. The plaque beneath it read "Jim's Telescope" in memory of James P. Bates--His Favorite View.
Yesterday we saw Yachats and Newport and I noticed that all along these areas are long coastal beaches with most lodgings being all oceanfront rooms at more reasonable prices than I would ever expect for real on-the ocean rooms where one slides open the glass door to the balcony and listens day and night to the ocean rolling in and morning seabirds.
We did some dune climbing at state parks seashores. These dunes can be up to 500 feet high and while we didn't climb these, I struggled up some fairly steep sand and would never had made it had there not been beach grass to grab on to and pull myself up. We saw some open trucks taking tourists on vehicle powered trips up the dunes.
Ar the coastal trail at Yachats, we came upon a fine attached in cement to the ground binoculars to look out of the ocean. The plaque beneath it read "Jim's Telescope" in memory of James P. Bates--His Favorite View.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
ontheroad- OR coast
Fri day Aug. 7
We spent the morning with Bill and Judy and then drove 4 boring hours out to the coast. The scenery on the drive were ttall trees but if flet dull. We arrived at Bandon-by-the-sea about 3:45. It doesn't look like much-ther is Old Town by the marina and the rest is rather spread out along Beach Loop Rd. It was hard to find a decent room here. At last we stumbled on to a Best western who an oceanfront suite that hadn't yet rendted so they gave it to us for the standard room rate. It is one of these oceanfront rooms that is great far from the ocean. In order to get to the ocean we had to walk down and cross the road and find a path marked Beach access which led through vegetation a distance down to a very wide clear beach of very fine sand. Finding our way out of the beach was tricky as they had no sign "road access" so we had to wend our way tall grasses and maybe poison oak--I will know that soon.
We spent the morning with Bill and Judy and then drove 4 boring hours out to the coast. The scenery on the drive were ttall trees but if flet dull. We arrived at Bandon-by-the-sea about 3:45. It doesn't look like much-ther is Old Town by the marina and the rest is rather spread out along Beach Loop Rd. It was hard to find a decent room here. At last we stumbled on to a Best western who an oceanfront suite that hadn't yet rendted so they gave it to us for the standard room rate. It is one of these oceanfront rooms that is great far from the ocean. In order to get to the ocean we had to walk down and cross the road and find a path marked Beach access which led through vegetation a distance down to a very wide clear beach of very fine sand. Finding our way out of the beach was tricky as they had no sign "road access" so we had to wend our way tall grasses and maybe poison oak--I will know that soon.
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