Wednesday April 7, 2010

Wednesday: Today it was a bit overcast but not raining, so we headed to the beach. 

It’s rocky and windy, but it’s still a beach! It was low tide when we parked the car and walked down the rocks to the shore below. We wandered along the coast looking for sea dollars and unusual shells, and occasionally running for higher ground when a big wave came in (once I didn’t run fast enough). There was a big outcrop of rocky cliff cutting across the beach, and to our surprise there was a concrete doorway at the bottom of the cliff. We walked through it and through a passage cut through the cliff to another beach on the other side.

So we cruised around that beach, too. 

Eventually it started to rain, so we headed back to the car.  The rain didn’t stay, though; the sun only came out once but at least the rain stopped! We lunched on a beef stick and Diet Coke from the Tillamook Smoker Outlet as we drove to Garibaldi, a small fishing town a few miles north. There we learned that the local crab boats haven’t been able to get out to sea for a couple of weeks because of the weather, and another storm is expected tomorrow. 

But we did find a store on the dock with some cooked crabs so we got a couple of those. We also bought an oyster knife at the local Fred Myers store and some fresh oysters at Pearl’s Point Oyster Company, back in Tillamook. At the end of the day I had wet socks, rained-on hair, and teriyaki-beef-stick breath – but I was so relaxed. We decided to stay one more day.

Back home Randy started opening the oysters, but the knife slipped and cut his knuckle open really bad. It really needed a couple of stitches but he didn’t want to go to the hospital, so we taped it up at home. So for once, I fixed dinner – oysters and crab - a great dinner but not worth the pain he’s in right now. We are definitely staying another night because he can’t drive like this.

And it’s raining again.