Gleneden, OR Condo

Watch out, here's Grandma on the surfboard!! I had to do
it because Brad wouldn't! It was a little to embarrassing for him.

This was a cute pull out driving out of Linclon City. I saw these

rocks and one has a tree growing out of it. Between the first

two rocks on the right is Mo's Restaurant! Great place to eat and

it seems to be always busy. They are a fish and chowder place.

There are several located up and down the Oregon coast.

One day dad wasn't feeling like going out so I dragged Brad

out with me. We went to the oldest glass blowing business

in Lincoln City, called the Alder House. It ended up being

very close to our condo, on a country road hidden by dense

foliage. I again didn't take my camera in :( sorry. It was

fasinating to watch him blow glass. We were there for around

30 minutes with just two other couples watching his demonstration.

He had a number of items in his shop people could buy. I just bought

a small egg shaped paper weight, most of his art was out of my price

range. We also drove a ways and found this covered bridge (above)

Oregon is well known for its many wooden covered bridges.

We took this picture of Brad from our balcony. I like this picture

with the waves and birds in the background. As you can see we

were close to the beach.

This is the back side of the condo, of course. If you look closely you

can see me and dad on the balcony! We had a front building view of

the ocean. :) Brad an Dad enjoyed going out in the water looking for

"dead things". Dad did bring home a few sand dollar pieces and other

precious things but we had to buy a star fish and another whole shell

just for the memory. :)

Oregon Coast Aquarium/Newport

I forgot to take my camera in so these are a few of Brad's pictures.
We were fortunate to be there for the feeding of the Sea Lions and
another time to see the otter's being feed. The workers feed the animals
3 times a day and while feeding the otters they told us they eat so many
times their weight- (which I forgot :( What I do remember is they said
it would be like us eating 100 quarter pounders or big mac's a day.
A you can imagine Brad really enjoyed this visit. They had a couple of
glass tunnel walk ways with benches you could sit and watch the fish swim
around you. One of the tunnels was all sharks - a little scary! There are so
many pictures of the under side of fish here, sorry. But maybe you get the
idea. I never saw a live halibut before - they are much bigger than I imagined.

Tillamook Cheese Company/Air Museum

Sorry these first two pictures are from postcards we bought.
I forgot to take my camera inside. The building was much
bigger than it appears. The viewing area upstairs was huge.
On the main level they had their store, resturant, gift shop,
and several ice cream lines. I think they make something like
30 flavors of ice cream. Of course we got our ole usual flavors
huckleberry and cookies and cream.

You can be sure this was one of Brad's favorite stops!! We visited

about an hour, of course Brad got lots of pictures. He made a haul

at their store - 4 new t-shirts and a hat. :) This hanger was used

during WW II to store a blimp.

Cape Fowlweather

This was a really fun stop. Oregon is so filled with dense foliage
and trees it is sometimes very hard to see the road signs for
attractions. Glad we darted in here! :)

This tells the history of Cape Fowlweather.......

This is looking south from the viewpoint. The grey condo's are

WorldMark at Depoe Bay. Brad had the binoculars out and found

three large groups of sea lions and otters as he followed those small

rocks in the water up to the large rocky shore. It was a beautiful spot!

Sea Lion Caves

The only way to see this group of sea lions was to pay admission to
the caves. This group wasn't in the cave, as you can see, they were
directly behind the building at the water's rocky edge

This was the beautiful turn out 1/4 mile before the Sea Lion Caves.
Your looking across at an historic lighthouse. The waters below
and the rocky water' edge were filled with sea lions. I said "who
needs to go to the cave now that we have seen all of these" but I am
glad Brad and I did. It was a cool experience.

This, of course, is the main entrance to the Caves. Brad and I went down

in an elevator 200 feet into the cave. It was an amazing place just filled

Sea Lions.

There were a number of pull outs on the highway to look for whales.

We were not lucky enough to see any.

The Redwoods

Most of the historic redwoods are in the "Land of the Giants"
off historic highway 101. Of course this is the well known
"drive-thru" tree. I miscalculated this days travel time. It took
much longer to get to the redwoods and our condo was more like
five hours south instead of two hours. oops! :( We didn't get to
our condo in Clear Lake until 11:00 pm.... Oh well, the drive was
beautiful and getting there from Lincoln City was filled with
one stop after another. Too many places to see and experience!

This picture is just to give you an idea of how large these trees

really are. This one was right next to the road. There were

areas to pull off and walk a shot distance to really big trees

The road going thru "Land of the Giants" was really good but narrow.

The trees came right to the roadway. They are so tall even with daylight

in among the tall trees it is still like night time. It was hard to get a

good picture, Sorry!

Clear Lake - California

Clear Lake is Wine Country. There a several Wine Tasting rooms.
This one is just outside Clear Lake city limits called Tulip Hill.



I'm afraid the background was too sunny to see the lake. You can
barely see the pier-they had a bench at the end of it and lots of
people were fishing from the pier too. You could even rent any kind of
boat at the pier. It was a beautiful spot.

At Clear Lake, our condo was on the bottom floor and our patio faced the lake.

We had a great view of the power boats, water skiers, and jet skis.

That would a condo be without animals to feed? Brad really enjoyed feeding

the ducks. He tried to get them to get it from his hand but this was about

as close as they would get.