We wake up pretty early this morning,
and leave an hour later after eating breakfast and packing for the
day. We stop of course at the Fred Meyer store in Newport, to buy
groceries and take advantage of their free Wifi – yes, we discover
that – and Red goes to Chase Bank to change her family name.
After running all those errands, we get
back on the road and reach Seal Rock SP. The park has large off-shore
rock formations, probably inhabited by seals, but we don’t see any.
It’s very cloudy and foggy, so it doesn’t help. It is low tide
time though, and we wander around the tide pools filled with sea
anemones.
Back in the RV, we drive to Cape
Perpetua. We first look for camping, but we are so confused and the
price ends up not being cheap enough, so we just extend our stay at
Lake Woahink RV Park by coming one day earlier than planned. To do
that, we have to drive back to Yachats to get some cell phone signal.
Once it’s done, we go back to Cape Perpetua and start exploring the
area. We hike at Devil’s Churn, a very narrow inlet carved into
the basalt shoreline, where we can still look at some tide pools. But
more impressive is the beautiful spectacle of the waves crashing on
the rocks, and sometimes exploding as incoming and outgoing waves
collide.
After lunch, we continue our
exploration on the rocky shoreline. We stand for a long time, looking
at the crashing waves, and at the Spouting Horn – a sea geyser –
and Thor’s Well – a sea fountain – both driven by the power of
the ocean.
We follow our journey south on US-101
by stopping at Washburne SP, a large beach surrounded by rocky capes,
before a dramatic transition to the dunes area that we are going to
explore tomorrow.
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