At the Farm Day 3

Since Steve and family had rain and fog and wind on their drive up the Oregon Coast, we took them to "our" beach on the north side of Cape Kiwanda. It was a beautiful day with a very low tide, no wind, ...and lots of other people on spring break. But the beach was so wide that everyone had plenty of room to be isolated from everyone else. I took the opportunity to do my mile walk south for CoastWatch while the others played.

But first there was the requisite stop to ooh and aah over Gunaldo Falls, which actually has a decent amount of water this time of year.

Someone said that if you narrow your field of vision to just the waterfall and stare at it for several minutes, when you then look to the side, the trees or whatever is there will look like they're moving upward. But your supposed to be close to the waterfall when you do it. So they thought it might work from far away, as we were from Gunaldo Falls, if you used your hands to narrow your vision. I was too busy taking a photo of these strange people covering their faces while facing the waterfall to try it, but I'm told it didn't work.

And then it was off to McPhillips Park and the beach. It was a very low tide as I walked south toward the Cape.

From high on the dune, it was a long look back to where the family was playing on the beach.

From that distance, zoomed in with my camera, it looked like they were wandering around separately.

As it turned out, Steve was making a huge maze with his walking stick and the others were trying to find their way through it.

Closer it became more apparent...

Parasailors were having a different kind of fun over the dune.

And then it was back home. The first baby goats of the year had arrived the second night of their visit, so before packing up and leaving on Friday, all had to come see the new babies.

I managed to get photos of the baby goats, but not the people. They did get to hold them.
 

Time to leave the farm and head home to California.

 

Out the driveway

Great to see them all. They sent photos on their way home... Next post...