Packing up was interesting as we’d picked an area where the mosquitos never let-up. Usually mornings aren’t too bad, but these buggers were relentless, as Müfit discovered when he took the dogs for a quick walk!
The drive this morning was very nice, through the Umpqua National Forest. This place is what you expect of a forest; lush green trees lining the highway, and there were dozens of campgrounds, as well as picnic areas and trails. Müfit and I both agreed that this was somewhere we might like to come back to some time.
Tomorrow night we have a state park booked on the Oregon Coast, so Müfit looked for a similar place. There are lots of them, all along the coast, but access to the coast isn’t easy as there are only a couple of highways linking the coast from the I5. Anyway, he earmarked a few to head for, all in the opposite direction to where we need to go for tomorrow, but not far enough to be a problem.
There’s a few different state parks or beaches which are all part of the Charleston State Beaches/Park and one of the campgrounds is called Sunset Bay. Having had some quite nice sunshine, and a good internet connection on the phone, we headed to that campground and found that they had full hook-ups for only $31 which is very reasonable for full, and we got a nice space that felt like it even had its own little yard so we let the dogs run around a bit while we got everything set up. Unfortunately, the second we had headed into this park it got horribly foggy. The temperature had already dropped by around 11C between earlier in the day and when we hit the coast, and it dropped further. We felt like we’d come to England on a cold November day! Müfit was also quite mad to discover that the internet connection had disappeared. This wasn’t a major problem for tonight, but meant that we’d have to leave earlier in the morning because he had some work to do and a call.
We had a walk to the beach but couldn’t see much due to the fog. Funny how the climate can be so different in such a short distance – we could even see our breath, it was so cool!
Bolgil Family Adventures 