Winchester Bay, Oregon

We arrived in Winchester Bay early this week. On the drive in we saw a 20 mile stretch of the most incredible view of the Oregon Sand Dunes.  ATV is a big past time sport here for many people.

Many of the sites overlooked the ocean, it was not difficult choosing a site here...... it was nice.

The first few days the rain bands were coming in which kept us close to our RV. Temperatures in the 50's.    Our first night we had concerns with the high tide coming in. The tide chart indicated tonight was going to be the highest of all tides of the month, about 9.5 feet.

   The waves were small and pounded the shore.  Midnight we would look out to see the waves splashing over the sidewalk....yikes! The pounding of the waves sounded like thunder.  A few times it sounded as though the Rv was being engulfed by waves. I half expected to wake up and find us out to sea. This is the calm before the storm.

During the day it was interesting watching the rain  clouds move across the sky. The sun would come out after the rain as if it hadn't rained all and within a half hour or so clouds moved in and they moved in quickly and before you knew it is was raining again.
 

After the  rains one afternoon the most beautiful double rainbow stretched across the harbor.

The harbor area here is pretty.   The long tides that come in and out make for an interesting shell excursion. You have to be moving quickly when the tides come in. 

One evening a helicopter came flying into the harbor and hovered right near our Rv over the water. We watched as the coast guard practiced rescue missions.  A diver would throw out a dummy (at least that is what it looked like)then he was lowered into the water to retrieve it.  We were inside our Rv watching the whole exercise.

 We rounded up some shrimp from a local  bait store and headed out fishing. The kids enjoyed the day fishing  even though the fish were not biting.

We drove up to the whale watching station yesterday to try and catch a glimpse of the whales.  The view was beautiful from the hilltop.  We did not see any whales.  We did enjoy watching a bald eagle try and defend the meal he had just caught  from another predator.