We passed a pleasant day and two nights in Honeyman. The hiker-biker site filled up, so we talked with a couple from LA who decided to do the trip three weeks ago, a Brit who is cycling to Singapore, and a Scot who had just that day finished cycling across America from Virginia. He also fought off the racoon which was foraging the site during the night !
We’re off to Umpqua State Park today, which isn’t that far away, but the parks in Oregon are really good. Lots of lily ponds on our road today.
We rode to Reedsport where we raided the supermarket, and replenished our tea supplies.
Then off to the campground, which is small and quiet, on a lovely clear lake.
We’re right in the woods.
One of our neighbours is a guitarist from New Orleans. He visited the guitar and bike shop in Florence I might have mentioned earlier, and made an impulse purchase. These are truly cool: guitar flatties. We chat into the night, and he plays his guitar.
Up late-ish as again, we’re not really going far, just to Sunset Bay State Park. We’re in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, so the landscape looks like this: big dunes, lakes, evergreens. Lots of people on dune buggies roaring around.
We pass through the towns of North Bend and Coos Bay, entering over another flaming bridge. These often feature no shoulder and a side wind to help matters along.
Then we ride round the estuary to Sunset Bay, famed for it’s sunsets. We make camp and ride out to Simpson’s Reef, near the end of Cape Arago, to see the Sea Lions.
The Pacific was living up to it’s name today. The big rock in the middle has the beasts.
Then we sit at Cape Arago and gaze at the ocean.
And finally, at a sunset. Off to Bandon tomorrow.
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