Today we had no set schedule and very little idea what we were going to do. To fill in our day, we decided to do a bit of exploring around Pacific City located about 4 miles south of our RV park. Accordingly, we started out by going north along the coast, checking out the superb views of forests, offshore haystack rocks and shoreline bluffs. After a few miles, we came to Clay Myers State Natural Area at Whalen Island, which is a county park that has a day use area and overnight camping. There are no utility hookups here but that doesn’t bothered the locals who were out in force with their fishing gear. Unfortunately for them, the only fish we saw that anybody had hooked were perch, a notoriously bony and almost meat-free species with large, difficult-to-remove scales and nasty spines on their backs.

This area is not on the coastline and Peggy wanted to take a stroll. Since this is estuary, walking alongside the water occurs not on sand but on mystery mud that is typically underwater. Peg was not impressed so we moved along. Next we went south, through Pacific City, which was almost deserted compared to yesterday. South of town we drove out on a long spit that ends at the Bob Straub Wayside. Bob Straub was a former governor. The little park has facilities for hiking, horseback riding and beach strolling. I climbed up on the berm between the parking lot and the long sand beach and found a seat on top while Peggy continued onto the beach. It is a very nice section of coastline but today it was very breezy; I was sandblasted each time I tried to look into the wind.

We called it quits after visiting the Wayside. We retreated back to the trailer and out of the wind. We also did a bit of prep for leaving tomorrow when we are scheduled to make the ninety mile run up to the Seaside area.

There’s some pix. Click the link. https://photos.app.goo.gl/N7Hycv64Vkt3tWdQ8