Heading for Bandon 12-10-07

Today was another cloudless, glorious day on the coast. This first picture is from our site before we pulled out this morning.

We pulled out around 10. Larry heard sirens going up the highway while the tanks were dumping and just before we pulled out onto the highway an ambulance sped by in the direction we were going. We were concerned it was an accident and we would be held up a really long time. After about 5 miles we came up to where the “incident” was and we were stopped. Everyone up to that point had been going by, but we were the first ones behind the first cop and ambulance on the scene. There were no crunched cars, but there was a body covered with a blanket on the shoulder and a huge dog jumping around the cop and the fireman on the scene. Larry had his scanner on and apparently someone had hit a transient and run. We had to sit there for a bit until the cop determined that the north bound lane was clear of any scene evidence and let us through. It was all really disturbing and has stuck with me all day.

The scenery was breathtaking today, it was just so clear and bright, hardly any traffic. We stopped in Gold Beach at one of Larry’s favorite places for breakfast, Grant’s. It is a large airy café with views of the ocean and the food is always good.

Our destination today was Bullard’s Beach State Park just north of Bandon. We had never been here but someone we had hosted with in the past had told us about it. It is amazing how quickly the area has gotten the debris from last weeks storm cleared up. There are fallen, broken trees all over the place. We weren’t sure we would get satellite here because there are so many trees, but once again Larry found it. We traveled 87 miles today.

After we got set up we drove back into Bandon to check out its little shops. It has cleaned up its act and is no longer the funky, hippy town that it once was. The café that had the best coffee drinks was gone, darn it. We did stop in the fudge shop for a couple samples. The wind was bitingly cold…brrrr. We stopped for groceries and then headed back for “home”.

We decided to cruise on down to the beach access and check it out really quickly and catch the sunset. It was REALLY cold but soooo pretty. The beach goes on forever, it is easy to get to and the sunset was stunning. Hopefully the weather is great tomorrow; I have rocks to pick up off the beach…tee hee.