Friday, October 4, 2013

Reedsport, Winchester Bay, & Coos Bay OR 3 Oct 2013

 Mike and Karen introduced us to this cute restaurant in Reedsport, OR, about five miles from our park.  Delicious breakfast !  Several dishes are based on local seafood fare.

This phone booth sits in the parking lot of MacDonald's in Reedsport.  We haven't seen one in a long time, especially one with a working phone.  
 Here we are in site 111 at Winchester Bay RV Resort.  We are facing the marina.  Behind us is the mouth of the Umpqua River with back-in sites, meant for 5th wheels.
The park is on a peninsula.  This is a view from our coach looking at the road in and out of the park.
We drove 25 miles south to Coos Bay to have dinner at a favorite place, called Benetti's.  They have been in business 30 years.  Our waiter has worked there for 22.  It is only open for dinner and has amazing Italian food.  It is such a surprise for this small town.  The portions are huge.  We both went home with doggy bags.  This fountain divides the entrance from the bar.
 There are donation jars all over town to collect money to restore this theater.
 Not all of downtown Coos Bay is this cute, but it looks like they are working at improving its tourist appeal.
 Looking through the railroad cars that probably brought these logs to the harbor, you can see logs being loaded onto an ocean going vessel for export.  They may be destined for a sawyer ship at sea that converts the logs into lumber for Asian markets.  Too few sawmills in the U.S. saw timber to metric dimensions.
North Bend is the twin city of Coos Bay.  We had never really noticed this sign because we had never come through here after dark.  

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