Fall Trip '06 — Day 4 



Pictures for this entry may be found here.

We woke up to a Small Craft Advisory, so we won't be going whale-watching this trip. Bummer!

We decided to give Georgies another shot for breakfast. They didn't disappoint — I had the corned beef & red potato hash. This really wasn't a hash, for the potatoes were large pieces that had been sautéed sweet onion and seasoned lightly with rosemary and other herbs with lots of corned beef added to the mix and smothered with rich, tangy Tillamook white cheddar cheese. I substituted scrambled eggs for the poached and it worked very well. Lynda had croissant french toast and was smiling most of the time she was eating it, but gave up, defeated by the shear size of it. Heather had the biscuits & gravy (a side order) with bacon. When this came out, it was HUGE. Of course she couldn't finish it; we found out she could have ordered it as a half order, oh well.

We decided to visit the Oregon Coast Aquarium since we couldn't go whale-watching. The Aquarium is smaller than the ones we have visited back home, but it still nice, concentrating on local sea and shore life.







We went over to the shops at Aquarium Village next to the Aquarium and found a glass blowing shop call Pyromania and I bought Lynda a pendant and she bought herself a pendant and some earrings. We also spent quite a while watching the artists making glass floats.

We drove back through town to the north side to the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. Bought some sweatshirts at the Visitors Center. Finally got to try out my new tripod to take pictures of the light, but the kelp flies were so bad that we had to leave after only a few minutes. Lynda and Heather saw a whale while I was busy taking pictures of the lighthouse, but I couldn't make it out in the sunlight reflecting off the water.

We headed out of town, headed east on US 20; tomorrow will be a down day. 

Posted: Fri - September 22, 2006 at 01:24 PM          

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