Seaside Revisited

From 2d Site at Seaside

This is what we saw from our windshield at Seaside, on the second visit.  This site is on the North side of the resort which is split into the two sections.  This side has the facility that houses the cafe and the indoor swimming pool/spa, tennis courts.  You can't see them from here, this is at the extreme rear of the sector.  

One reason there has been such a lag since our last input is that here at Whaler's Rest near Newport, there is a really weak Verizon connection.  Several days ago we put up an external antenna on a length of plastic pipe vised to the slide out, coupled with a booster that has helped us get a good enough signal to upload our photos.  We had the original antenna ripped off the rig by trees when we were down in the Gold Country in California.  It was on a permanent mount on the passenger side.  Thinking of keeping this one stored away until we need it, like we do here, to keep it from getting torn off.  The disadvantage is that it won't be available to Eloise if we are driving through a weak area for an extended time.  I'm thinking of far West Texas for example, where Verizon hasn't made many inroads.  Still, for us anyway, Verizon is hands down the best all around coverage for phone and internet (MiFi) in the places we travel.   

On our way here from Circle 8 we stayed a couple nights at a Coast To Coast park where we were privileged to meet Frannie and Lionel Brown.

Huge cat of Frannie's

Lionel and Frannie by their Allegro Bus

This was a cute couple that we had lots of fun with in a short time.  They enjoy playing board games, and we introduced them to one called "Aggravation".  I think they had a love/hate relationship with the game, but we provided a contact for them to order their own game.  Did you get it yet, Lionel?

Crab Shell

Did you know that crabs shed their entire shells, including eye sockets making a perfect empty crab shell? 





 Somewhere in my computer are lots of pictures that I have no earthly idea how to connect with!  Some of them dealt with the Japanese submarine attack on Oregon near Ft Stevens June 21, 1942.  Some Americans don't know that the Continental US was actually fired upon during WWII. 
Shells were lobbed onto the mainland, but inflicted little damage.  Ft Stevens had their 6" guns at the ready, but the Fort did not return fire, in fact were actually ordered by the brass not to return fire.  I can't imagine why, and nothing we could find explained why that was.  This is a replica of the guns that were on duty here during the war:  

6" Rifle at Ft Stevens, OR

Here, Gary looks the canon over.  It appears that if it was fired it would take out half the wall, but that's because it is mounted on a "disappearing" mount.  When it is fired, the gun is raised into the air.  Just left of Gary is the sighting and adjustment mechanism.

On the beach in the Ft Stevens State Park is this old shipwreck.  It's name is lost with my pictures !!

Gary goes after another couple of caches.  We made a dent, but there's still plenty more caches we didn't have time to get to.  Right now we have found a total of just less than 2400.  That isn't many compared to others, some of whom have many, many thousands.  When we started in 2009 there were 3/4 million world wide.  Now there are more than 2 million!!

Since a lot of photos in this area are among the missing, this will be a short update.  I'll leave you with a couple shots taken down the coast from the Seaside vicinity.