Crescent City, California

KM= 351

Another lovely, leisurely day riding along the Oregon Coast Bike (as in bicycle) Trail. The bike path is very well maintained and when you enter one of the many tunnels or bridges the bicyclist pushes a button that sets off a flashing light to warn motorists they are in the tunnel or on the bridge - a good safety feature.

We started our morning by watching a big bald eagle hunting on the rocks outside our room. We went for a walk to explore the tidal pools and saw sea anemonies, rock crabs, star fish, billions of mussels and lots of other neat things. Most forget that Doug is actually a marine biologist by trade and enjoys refreshing his memory.

This portion of Oregon is famous for its coastal sand dunes. Many places to rent ATV style dune buggies to play. And many places to buy seafood!

The weather was ever changing in the morning but as we had seen written in a few places just wait 15 minutes and it would be totally different, which it was. The afternoon was nice and sunny. Our faces are taking on the usual wind burnt bikers look!

More spectacular scenery as we rode along the coast. The waves at some points are so powerful it is very obvious why they say NO swimming. We stopped at Bandon, another neat little coastal town. The local school children had done all varieties of paintings to commemorate the year of the Rabbit and these paintings were posted along the dock for all to enjoy. We watched people pulling in their crab nets - dozens of crabs in each one but only a few keepers that met the right sex and size.

Talked to some bikers from Oregon a few days ago and they recommended this quaint motel in Crescent City so here we are a the Curly Redwood Motel, which was built in 1950 from one very large redwood tree. It is definitly back to the 50's. While we were musing on this, a whole group of Model As drove in to stay. Perfect! The ambience is now complete!

By the way, have a new additional to our tour company. His name is Yakky. He is a sea otter from Yakalts, Oregon.