Wet Wet Wet

Day 2

Following the coast highway (101) through the rest of Washington state. Rain off and on.

With great anticipation, we detoured to Long Beach (every state has a place called Long Beach) to see the "World Kite Museum and Hall of Fame".

Picture a rainy off-season resort town. Little is open and the kite museum is long gone. Had a pleasant lunch at a local cafe and motored on into Oregon (with tears of disappointment in our eyes), in search of warmer weather.







In the afternoon, we arrived in Tillamook to tour the cheese factory, before settling in Newport for the night. Our early arrival there allowed us to do a walking tour of the town in search of a cheap place to eat. Not finding any, we had a first-class seafood dinner overlooking the ocean (pitch dark but you could hear the waves if you listened carefully).

Newport is one of the places that a sailing vessel transiting down this coast could conceivably take shelter, so we made a point of checking out the approach through the breakwaters, just in case.

So far, the weather has been exactly the same as back in Nanaimo. We have not seen a temperature higher than 10C. I'm sure California is the answer...

Day 3

Left Newport in the pouring rain, and it did not let up all day. Through the rain and mist, we caught glimpses of the rugged Oregon coast, small economically disadvantaged (Sue's term) towns, and the old-growth redwood forest.

We arrived in Eureka, California in the afternoon, where the rain held off long enough for us to do bit of a walking tour through the old town and the marina district.

Interesting Victorian architecture and another possible bad-weather shelter for boats cruising down the west coast.

Again, we never saw a temperature greater than 9C all day. I'm beginning to believe we never left Canada.