It's cold!!

We knew when we decided to come to Washington State that we were going to get some cold weather, but we never thought it would be so cold that we would have snow on our vehicles.



It has rained just about everyday since we have been in Oregon and Washington. We haven't had any wind though. Some of our friends have had to 'seek a safe place to land' in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. There have been some bad storms down there with heavy rains and tornado watches and warnings. The rain here most of the time is no more than a heavy mist.

We have been having a good time with Ed's daughter Sheila and grandson Michael. Sunday was spent watching Sheila's team play softball after being rained out on Saturday. It wasn't raining but it was cold! We brought Michael back to the motorhome to stay with us for a couple of days. He is on spring break and Sheila had to work Monday and Tuesday. She is off for the rest of the week so we hope to get out and see some of the sights around the Tacoma/Seattle area.

Ed and Michael spent this morning fishing here at the lake. Didn't catch anything but seem to be having fun!

Oregon Coast

We have been here at Whalers Rest RV Park since last Sunday. It's been an uneventful stay. It has rained just about everyday.

We did some laundry, got our hair cut, baked some cookies and finally today, we got to do some sightseeing. We went down to the bay and walked around for a bit. There were a lot of people crabing. They have these metal looking cages that they drop to the bottom. They have to keep pulling them up to see if they caught anything. Didn't see anyone catch anything.



We then toured the old lighthouse. This lighthouse was only used for about 3 years because they decided that it was built in the wrong place and another was built about 2 miles further up the coast. The second picture was taken from the lighthouse looking out to the ocean.


Tomorrow we leave for Tacoma.

Trees of Mystery

Thursday and Friday we spent some time touring the Klamath area. We stopped at "Trees of Mystery". Here are a few pictures of what we saw.



On the left is the 'Family Tree'. Can you see how a new tree seems to grow off the limb of the original tree?

We learned that a redwood tree has no tap root. The roots are all surface roots. Makes you wonder how these trees stand and grow for so long.














After we had finished our tour of the trees, we drove back the coast route to our RV park. This is where the Klamath River enters the Pacific Ocean.



The picture on the right shows what looks like a farm house. Looks can be deceiving. This was actually a radar station during WWII. It was made to look like a farm house on purpose. It would monitor the movements of Japanese Submarines during the war.

We left the redwood forest behind on Saturday and continued north on 101. Before long we enter Oregon and the scenery changed from tall redwoods to coastal pines.

We arrived at our destination around 3:30pm and settled in. We will be here exploring the area for the next few days. The weather is cold and it has been raining off and on today. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better and we can do that exploring!