Today started out beautiful (but ended kinda creepy... more later). The sun was shining and the sky was clear...
We headed down to the beach right across from the motel in Lincoln City...
This beach is very unique... not the typical sandy beach, but lots of awesome rocks that are revealed at lower tides...
They are very pretty, especially when the surf pours over them... We were a little dissapointed that there was not more sealife in the tide pools that are created by the rocks... pretty much just sand today...
And there was plenty of surf punding away today!
It boggles my mind sometimes to think about how this landscape was created...
It is one of the prettiest beaches we have ever seen.
Deb had fun using her new Nikon D100 that she inherited at Christmas... she had so much fun taking photos on our Fall roadtrip (and she was good too), that I decided to give her her very own setup!
After leaving Lincoln City, we decided to head north for awhile and found this covered bridge... it is the oldest covered bridge in Oregon (though it was completely restored in 2001). It is actually quite a story of faith as to how it was saved from destruction and finally restored on this private property.
After the bridge, we drove to Pacific City and found the most wonderful beach. This is a shot of Haystack Rock (yes there are two Haystack Rocks... the other is up the coast a ways in Cannon Beach - a little more famous but quite a bit shorter).
Although, this one is not as tall as it looks :)
But Deb had some fun with it anyway!
OK, now the creepy part...
We decided to drive a little farther north to Neskowin... and try to find the motel where we spent our honeymoon (if you want to call one night at the beach and a trip to Pixie Kitchen a honeymoon... hey we didn't even know how poor we were!) Anyway, it took us awhile to find the place because the place has changed quite a bit in 33 years... the trees are lots bigger and now it is called the Pacific Sands RESORT. But that is not the really wierd part...
As got out to explore, we noticed that all of the rooms on the ground floor (Deb is standing on the patio of unit 13A where we stayed) were boarded up and there was a sign that said the building was unsafe to occupy... It did not take long to figure this one out...
Deb is standing about 15 feet out from the patio on a spot that used to be a nice gentle sloping beach extending out to the surf... now the beach is gone and the waves just crash against the rocks that have been placed there about 30 -40 feet below!
Unfortunately, the waves now breach the top of the rocks and are flooding the lower levels of the resort. It was and awesome sight to see and it made us feel like we were in the twilight zone... like somehow the place had been picked up and placed down in another part of the world... but this was the same place... just drastically changed!
You can see the mud that has been carried through the building and the breezeway in this shot. The caretaker came out when he saw us and told us that the ocean started reclaiming the beach about nine years ago but has gotten serious just recently... the government has sent experts to study the situation and try to determine what they can do about it... I bet the ocean wins!
We still cannot stop thinking about the change that has occurred here in just 30 years!
We did get to see another beautiful sunset tonight... something we did not see on our honeymoon due to the ferocious storm that was pounding the coast that night.
Pixie Kitchen is long gone (bummer) so we settled for some other local faire and went back to the motel to snuggle for the evening.
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