Oregon Coast

After a night spent in Portland (Chinese food, yes), we headed to the Oregon Coast and joined it at Lincoln City.  The Central Coast is beautiful, but the drama comes later, down on the southern coast.

It's beautiful, but upon hours and hours of coastal driving, it becomes...meh.

A lighthouse just north of Florence where we stayed our first night on the Coast.  (Chinese food, kind of as we cooked Ramen in the room)

But then comes the Dunes.........

Standing on the beach when it's windy, you see and feel the streams of blown sand.

And they create the 45 mile long, and 2 mile wide Oregon Dunes.

For $15, we took an hour long buggy (the slow plodding one, not the fast one that goes up and down at highway speeds) all over the Dunes.

The flat parts is where lots of people race around with their ATVs and motorcycles.

South of Coos Bay is where Highway 101 turns inland and the read high cliffs begin.

The scenery gets grander....

....the beaches more secluded and isolated....

....and the rock crags get bigger!