Bottom Fishing Trip

Wayne and two other friends from the RV park, Bob and Greg, booked a bottom fishing trip for Thursday.

Wayne took my camera and Greg took his so the pictures are from both cameras.

Before they got out past the jetties someone spotted something.

Could it be a spout from a whale?

 

That is exactly what it was so they had an exciting start to the trip.

Here is a picture of Wayne, Bob, the deckhand, and Greg.  What a happy group.

Here is the deckhand throwing over one of the crab pots on the way out.

Here are Wayne and Bob fishing.

 

And here is Greg fishing.

 

Here is the deckhand feeding the sea gulls so that one of the girls on board could get a picture.

 

Bob helped the deckhand pull in the crab pots on the way back in.

Here is the take from one of the four pots that they put out.

Here is Bob with one of the larger crabs.

They have to be measured with this gauge to be sure they are large enough and you can only keep the males.

Here is a picture of Wayne on the way back in.

 

Here is a view of the bridge from out in the channel.

 

The building with the windows is Mo’s where we had lunch yesterday.  This is where the boat docks.

This is the boat’s captain.

People are lining the area above the dock watching the boats come in and seeing what they caught.

 

You can pay this lady a dollar a fish to fillet them.  Sure is easier than doing them yourself.

 

Greg and Bob are showing off some of the fish they caught.  They got rock fish and ling cod.

Here are Bob and Wayne picking up the crabs that the man cooked for them.  They each got a dozen crabs each.

 

That’s a load of crabs.

While the men were out fishing the girls went window shopping and out to lunch.  Then we joined them on the dock to see what they had caught.  Here are Sandy and Bob, Me and Wayne, and Chris and Greg. 

Shortly after the boat was unloaded they headed out again on a crabbing trip.

We all had a fun day.

Beaches from Newport to Waldport

We finally got a beautiful day on Wednesday.  Wayne needed to go to Tradewinds Charters to check to see if they would clean any crab that they catch on their fishing trip scheduled for Thursday.  While we were down on the Bay Front we ate lunch next door at Mo’s Annex.  It was very good and we could watch for the  boats to come in to see what they had caught.

Then we headed south on Hwy 101.  I made Wayne stop at every State Park along the way to see if their beach access was easier than we have found so far. 

At South Beach State Park you have to go over the dunes in soft sand so that one is not easy.

At Seal Rock, we climbed up to the look out and took pictures.  As you can see this is not an easy place to access the beach either.

There were some birds swimming around in the water.

These are pictures of Seal Rock State Park.    There is a steep trail down to the beach.

 

There was a kid on the beach trying to move this piece of driftwood.

We walked along the paths but we didn’t see any seals.

We stopped in Waldport at their Farmer’s Market and Wayne found some strawberries.  We were planning on going further but decided to stop for the day and go back to the coach.

Agate Beach

Friday was a beautiful day.  The sky was clear and the sun made it rather warm.  We decided to drive out to Agate Beach.

There is a nice parking lot with a walkway under the highway to the beach. 

Unfortunately we couldn’t cross at the bottom of the path as a lot of water was running due to the recent rains.  We had to walk up the path to the highway to go down to the beach.

The beach was very wide from the rocks to the water.  The Japanese dock is still drawing lots of attention.  Wayne took pictures with various degrees of zoom.

 

As you can tell people were climbing all over it.

The wind made interesting patterns in the sand.

I looked for agates or shells but I didn’t find any.  As you can see from the jacket, the wind made it rather cool but I did walk in the water.

This beach is also a prime kite flying location and this is one of several kites being flown.

Wayne also got a picture of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse from the beach.

Friday night we drove up to Lincoln City to the casino for the seafood buffet again.  Bob and Sandy from Idaho went with us.  We had good food and good company.

Saturday morning was the Newport Farmer’s Market.  We went and Wayne bought some asparagus and I got a brownie.  That afternoon we went to the Gem and Mineral show and I got some pretty stones to wrap.

Sunday morning we went to church and then to lunch.  Wayne got calls from both daughters and one granddaughter wishing him a Happy Father’s Day.

Celtic Festival

Newport hosted the Celtic Festival and Highland Games Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  We went over to the Lincoln County Fairgrounds  around 10 on Saturday.

As we entered the gate there were some Highland Cattle.  Note the long hair.  They are much smaller than the cattle we are familiar with..

We went first to the Music Stage as that is where the opening ceremony was scheduled to take place.  We got there in time to hear Paddy in the Mist.  They were very good.

  

The master of ceremonies was a native of Scotland who served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

The presentation of the colors included an eclectic age group.

After the presentation of the colors the master of ceremonies performed a formal sword routine to the sound of bagpipes.

Next came the Celtic Heratage Parade lead by the Southern Oregon Scottish Bagpipe Band.

 

Many people were in kilts, showed their tartans, or in other costumes.

 

Dogs of celtic heratage were allowed in the parade as well.  This one sported the family tartan.

This young man was the drum major for the Kell’s Pipe Band from Portland.

They only brought a small portion of their band.

Here is another dog—this one has a kilt on.

Nana’s Irish Pub had a concession stand on the grounds and I had Lamb stew and Wayne had a corn beef sandwich.  We each had a beer.

Our next stop was the Dance Stage where Mistral was performing.  They are a trio specializing in traditional songs and dances from Brittany.  Here is one of the trio playing a hurdy-gurdy.

They got the audience to participate in the dances.  The man on the left was the instructer.

 

While they prepared the stage for the Ceili of the Valley dancers, the Kell’s Pipe Band entertained us.

The bagpipe was practically on top of me.  The drum major makes twirling a manly art.

The drummers got very creative with their drum sticks in between hits.

 

Ceili of the Valley performed the type of social dances that are done at Ceilis.

The weather started turning grey and cold so we went home.

Sunday morning we went to the First Presbyterian Church in Newport.  This is their alter area.

They were hosting their first ever Kirkin of the Tartans as part of the service.  This is a picture of the rehersal with all the tartan flags displayed.  This service came about after the ban against wearing tartans was ended in Scotland.  England had also banned bagpipes.

The service was very nice and the people were very friendly.

We went out to lunch and then home for awhile.  We went back to the Celtic Festival at 3 o’clock as there were some dancers that we wanted to see.

The group we wanted to see was Murry Irish Dance out of Portland.  The little girl in this group was a newbee  but they let her perform several dances with them.

These two girls were dressed alike but they are not sisters.

This is a brother and sister team.  They are into competitive dancing.

The girl with the long blond hair is also into competitive dancing.

The music for the dance was provided by the dance teacher on flute like instruments except that you blow into the end.

I caught them in action in this photo.

We had a very enjoyable time at the Celtic Festival but we never got over to the Highland Games.  I guess next time.