Inhale deeply…

We left Florence yesterday and headed south..

We didn't get far.. we stopped to revisit a favorite campground..

Winchester Bay RV park.

Our view is water, boats and birds..

But enough of this..

I want to tell you about our day today..

I wanted to inhale today in one huge breath and never let it out!

After being cold for a week or so…..it was nice to feel the warmth of the sun.

It was a beautiful day. A warm 60 degrees..

We drove past the sand dunes loaded with off road vehicle tracks..

This is a very popular area to come with an ATV.

A large area of sand dunes to play in.

We instead..

Went to the beach..

No ATVs here..

Just us and a few others..

Here we are..

This was a day of shadows..

and sand..

I play with my shadow..

and Jeff..

Got em..

What are the white things on this driftwood?

A closer inspection shows sand dollars..

lined up in a row..

Got down low for this one..

A lovely shell in the sand..

Jeff looking for birds..

We weren't the only ones on the beach..

There were these people..

And this prehistoric creature..

making its way to the ocean..

Oh oh oh…We found some wonderful driftwood..

Gorgeous~amazing pieces that someone in my family would have loved.

We tried to pry this root system loose but it was attached to a tree under the sand..

Darn!Oh my..what have we here..

We wanted soooo much to take this with us..

If we had a truck we would have..

What a beautiful sculpture..

I know one of my Sickstas would have LOVED It…

Sorry..

 

Instead Jeff carried this out..

He thought maybe Sicksta Lori would like it.

I carried out this piece of smoothed bark..

Time to leave the beach ..

Jeff watches the birds while I wander down the road.

Taking photos..

See me?

waving to our campground in the distance.

Wood owl

Winchester Bay..we see this from our campsite.

We travel a few miles north..

Looking for woods..

And mushroomsI think this is Witchs butter..

Tremella mesenterica

We found Chanterelles here..

Not frozen like the ones we found a few days earlier further north.

These were on the dry side…

not enough rain.

Clear cutting in the distance…

lots of that here..

I don't like it.

We pass these train cars..

I think they are used to carry wood off the mountains..

They made nice windows..

It was getting late..

We decided to go to the beach to catch the sunset..

Wonderful lighting and shadows..

The shadows are long and stretchy..

Foot prints in shadows..

We walk to the jetty..

Oyster farm

The lighthouse..

 

We leave the jetty and walk south..

Jeff leads the way..

Two people up ahead..

They are doing Tai Chi..

While the sun sets..

Ahhhhhh….

What a day..