Day 10 - Foraging Newport

Pretty much every possible weather hazard is listed for today: Flood Advisory, Flood Watch, Wind Warning, Heavy Rain. Tough. We're goin' to Newport.

Bread and Roses, our Yachats bakery, has decided to close for all of January. Arrrgh. Our favourite place in Newport, La Maison, has a dead website - but we decide to drive by - just in case. It doesn't look like much, but they really know what they are doing - and Bailey is there!

This mural in Newport attracts gulls like a magnet. It has performed like this for many years, making scientists wonder, "what the heck?" So much so, that the NOAA has committed serious resources to the study of "Strange Gull Attractors". We think it has military implications.

That's the NOAA research fleet dedicated to the study of Strange Gull Attractors. We see many leading scientists in town wearing their lab coats and tinfoil hats.

Meanwhile, rafts of sea lions drift by. They want NOAA attention, too.

A sign of the times - no matter what side of the border one is on.

One boy. One black dog. Newport town hounding.

Perhaps it should read curiosities and creepy things.

The X files had the cigarette smoking man. Newport has the cigarette smoking hand.

Every now and then you drive by one of those phenomenon that you just have to pull up and say what the ???? This is one of those times. We think there is an artist at work here. But we can't be totally sure.

A little more detail from the rockscape.

Ella has always wanted to grow up to be a crab boat dog. Oh lookie! A crab boat for sale!

Local Ocean, The Place for seafood in Newport. Right across from the fleet.

Daylight fades over the harbour. The fleet sleeps.

Ella scurries when she hears the relentless bark of the sea lions. She is not amused by them.

So many things have come and gone since we first travelled this coast in 1984. Mo's is not one of them. In fact they have a relatively new location right on the promenade in Seaside.

 

 

 

 

 

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