9/10/2017
Greetings from the Oregon coast! Well, actually about a mile inland from the coast.
First off, our thoughts are with all our friends and family in Florida suffering through the wrath of IRMA.
We'll be leaving Beaver Creek tomorrow heading for the great unknown. Fires and smoke are making any route east somewhat tenuous. This has been a very bad fire season for the Pacific Northwest. From Newport north has been relatively clear. Our location is on the edge of the major smoke path, only having a few days where it impacted us. We had hoped to explore eastern Oregon, make our way south through Idaho, and into Utah to visit all the great national parks. However, the fires/smoke will determine our path.
First off, our thoughts are with all our friends and family in Florida suffering through the wrath of IRMA.
We'll be leaving Beaver Creek tomorrow heading for the great unknown. Fires and smoke are making any route east somewhat tenuous. This has been a very bad fire season for the Pacific Northwest. From Newport north has been relatively clear. Our location is on the edge of the major smoke path, only having a few days where it impacted us. We had hoped to explore eastern Oregon, make our way south through Idaho, and into Utah to visit all the great national parks. However, the fires/smoke will determine our path.
All is going well. Here some pictures from the past two months...
Late afternoon view of the grounds from the
grassy hill on the west side if the property.
The Visitors Center, a former private home.
View from the Visitors Center deck.
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| The Beaver Creek Welcome Center from Beaver Creek. |
There were raised garden beds from the former owners so we thought we'd try a garden. The season for buying vegetable plants was over but we found a few plants for 50% off, 2 tomatoes, 2 bell peppers and a bunch of leaf lettuce plants. Here's what it looked like after planting...
... and just before we left.
The lettuce was the big producer, we stopped buying it. We got 2 red tomatoes and a small bag full of green ones. The peppers were small. All together they probably added up to 1 or 2 full size peppers. After we picked everything clean there's still plenty of small fruit and many blooms for the next host ... if winter doesn't get-em first. I think we came out ahead with the production vs. the cost of buying the plants. The most benefit was the fun we had tending a garden again.
Part of the nature trail behind the Visitors center.
Happy Hour after a tough day at the "office"... NOT!
A family on one of our kayak tours owns a winery and they brought us a bottle of wine as a thank you gift. Joan made some hors d'oeuvers (with lettuce from the garden) and we shared them during one of our "Happy Hours".
The big event of the past two months was, of course, the Total Eclipse!
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| A smokey sunrise over Beaver Creek |
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| Beaver Creek at Ona Beach with wispy clouds. |
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| Demonstrating beaver swimming technique..."doggie paddle". |
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Nutria and Beaver, which is which? |
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| Nutria swimming across creek. |
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Close Encounter of the Nutria kind |
We're not going that far, but the next post will be from the road.
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