Pacific Coast, 2025

It doesn’t really feel as if we are at home in Oregon until we spend a few days on the beautiful Pacific Coast. It is a yearly ritual.

It was a busy summer at home this year, so our trip to check on the Ocean was later than usual. It was Mid-October before we were able to get away for a few days.

So we missed the summery blue-sky cloudless summery beach days but there are no bad days at the Coast. And we were happy to be there for the onset of a huge storm — the ocean was wild! Spume from the wind-driven waves piled up against the rocky shores and looked almost like piles of snow!

We walked well above the sea where it was safe — no wading along the wet sand or exploring tide pools this time.

Our destination was the sweet little seaside village of Yachats, one of our favorite coastal areas. There are nice long perfectly safe walking paths with beautiful sea-views. It was only a bit windy on shore, but it didn’t rain until the morning we were leaving.

We stayed at a funny little historical inn in above a restaurant that has served Yachats since 1929, when it was a speakeasy bar with rooms available for the purposes of its patrons . Now it’s an eclectic family-friendly place. Each of the inn’s rooms is uniquely themed and decorated. I love lodging that isn’t chain-hotel-same and The Travel Planner* is great at finding these unique places. It was a fun place to stay and to eat — walking that crooked staircase to breakfast each morning was well worth it! We had a “stretching-it” sort of ocean view from our room but we didn’t need a better one since the weather let us spend the days outdoors!

On our way home, Autumn color and a few elk spotted at the Dean Creek preserve made a lovely end to our mid-week getaway.

Thank you for finding FullTime-Life at our new location. I am happy to be back in Blogland.. This new page Recovering the Blog explains what happened. We’re getting ready right now our Winter cross-country migration to Florida. I look forward to visiting other photo-bloggers after we settle in for the season.

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