Headed south down the coastline

This is an amazing old fashioned General Store, complete with original, squeaky, hardwood floors. If you go be sure to check out the back room down stairs and the upstairs "museum" of antique store items.


This is just a small portion of the museum collectibles.

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An old Victorian town, Ferndale, just southwest of Eureka.

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FERNDALE, CALIFORNIA

He made furniture too.

A roadside chainsaw carver's place.

Good perspective on size.

Back in the redwoods.

Hydrangeas. Out here they are usually blue, and are everywhere.

This sea gull landed on the hood of our truck while we were stopped eating lunch in the truck. I honked, and he just looked at me. Brazen little B-------s.

Fog every morning.

We are now driving through a giant redwood forest, away from the ocean a little bit, still on 101.

Back on the coast. See my new decal on the back?

We went through some class 4 rapids. He said the rapids were only rated class 4 because of the large rocks present in most of them.

These guys were setting test nets to survey fish populations in the river.

I went on a jet boat ride on the Rogue River. This was one of the boats like I rode on. The boat had three 360 h.p. gas engines, each with its own jet drive. 1100 horse power gives a pretty good ride. It can run in 6 inches of water. The driver liked to spin the boat 360 degrees. There were lots of rafters drifting the river in groups. Many of them liked to engage each other in water fights, using long tubes with a plunger that could suck up river water and then squirt it in about a quarter inch stream for about 20 feet. Our driver liked to water fight too. However, his water gun was 1100 horsepower that put out a flow of 26,000 gpm at full power. He would just ease past those who had squirted us first, and then just rev the engines a second to drown them. Those who weren't too bright, then would squirt the driver rather than the passengers. He would turn around, ease near the offending raft at about 5 mph, and then put the engines in full reverse. That would make the bow of the boat squat heavily into the water, and send what had to be several hundred gallons of water into the raft in a large wave, much like an ocean breaker. That was fun for us to watch, but he made sure no one got hurt.

More Oregon coast pictures

This guy passed us. He has what looked like a 14 foot boat, motor, and trailer, in the bed of his pickup. We saw another like this later.

The following few pictures are of the Oregon coast. We traveled down US 101.

The fort was 50 by 50 feet.

We headed down the coast because it is cooler by about 40 degrees compared to 30 miles inland. We stopped at a replica of the fort built by Lewis and Clark for their winter at the end of the Cloumbia River.