Sunday June 24 - to South Beach State Park, near Newport OR

Good morning sunshine! Moving on today so no dilly dallying in our campsite!  We are ready to go by about 9am but first  pop in to say g'bye to J&G and they invite us to stop in at their lake side property on our way to South Beach State Park.  Check in at the SP is from 4pm and being Sunday we are probably better to arrive later in the afternoon rather than earlier when our site might not be vacated, so we have a whole day to enjoy first.

So we drive to Pony Mall North Bend, less than a mile away, where there is a Ross (my fave), Dollar Tree and Safeway all within the same parking space.  I have a nice relaxing shop and I escape with just a couple of items from Ross, many from Dollar Tree and we don’t even bother with Safeway in the end, we have not used much of our food supplies while at the Rally.

Just after we crossed the McCulloough bridge, still in North Bend, we need to brake to avoid a mid size deer which wants to cross the highway in front of us.  They are so graceful, this one leaps over the road barrier and skedaddles into the greenery.

J&G live on a beautiful lakeside property about 10 miles south of Florence.  We thought we knew the way, we’ve been by there once before with L&L, but after a bit of a ‘walk about’ (read getting lost)  we eventually arrive.  There is parking for us immediately outside their property amongst the boat trailers. as the Westlake launch ramp is right at the end of their property.

Relaxing in the sun

We sit out on their deck sometimes manouvring our chairs into the shade as necessary.  Around the 2pm the threatening fog comes over and it gets a tad cooler.  Just about time to move on anyway, we have another hour or so drive ahead of us.

We slot in behind another Safari Cheetah with a mural on the back, it makes a nice change to follow a pretty picture, now we know what people experience following us.

Nice mural!

Nicer mural - ours!!

One wannabe suicide jockey in a ute overtakes them on double yellow lines with minimal visibility and I don’t know how but he manages to live another day, dang it they are still in the gene pool.  We don’t see much of this in the US, we find most Americans are super polite and super patient although we do go out of our way to move over and let them pass.  At the next town we get in front of the Safari so have another viewpoint for the next 10 miles or so.

The sea fog rolls in over the coast and the temp drops!

We arrive at South Beach SP and enjoy a super quick check-in, might have something to do with we are parked in the through lane rather than the check in lane, but we have our paperwork real quick and mosie on to find out site F33.

The fog has cleared and come back again while we have been here and its already 4pm so we don’t spend much time outdoors,

Not so many photos today we have too many juicy bugs on the windshield!