Newport, Oregon

Following are some pictures of the awesome Oregon coastline! Words can’t describe God’s awesome creation. And pictures don’t do justice, either!

And then we pulled into the Port of Newport Marina and RV Park! Oh my goodness! What a beautiful place to be for a few days!! Ocean, boats, RVs, fishing. I got a personal tour of the facilities from the resident self-designated host! He was quite a character! I learned a lot about the area and the fishing they do there. That is salmon that they had caught in the pictures.

This last picture is of the NOAA research ship that goes out of Newport.

These blue buildings are the fish cannery where the salmon, tuna, halibut and other fish are processed when they come in.

One of our side trips that John and I took was to the Heceta Lighthouse in the Yaquina Bay. It is still operating with the light beacon.

On the huge rocks below the lighthouse are hundreds of birds.

This is a great whale watching place! Newport has a resident whale pod of about 16 whales that stayed all summer and didn’t migrate to Alaska. They were out there feeding when we were there! We are a long distance from them, but if you look closer, you can see the backs of them and in the last picture, John got the tail!

We drove along the beach road and came to Agate Beach. There is still a lot of agate there, but is covered by all the sand. If the wind and waves are right, people have been known to find some. The sand on this beach is in waves. John is standing in front of one of the waves/dunes.

Another beach…

Further down the road is the VietNam Memorial.

And another lighthouse, which is a non-working one.

One of our tours was of the Oregon Coast Aquarium. That place was awesome!! What a great tour we had!

This is a monkey-face prickleback…yuck.

We also toured the Hatfield Marine Science Center. No pictures from there…I guess it didn’t interest us very much!!

One afternoon we went over to Harbor Drive. It’s kind of like downtown Wisconsin Dells. We found an awesome restaurant that overlooked the harbor that we had supper at. All the tables face the harbor, so there’s not a bad table in the place! Sea lions have taken up residency there, mostly because of the fishing boats that come in. They have become somewhat of a nuisance to the locals, but they sure entertained us!! We were seated on the second floor of this restaurant and looked out over the harbor.