The lighthouse in Bandon

 We are staying in Coos Bay Oregon, and day tripped down the coast today to Bandon. It's an old town known for crabbing. You can actually rent crab traps here. The lighthouse is on a jetty built in 1895-1905. It was very foggy this morning, the worst weather we've had since leaving on our trip.

                                                        The boat basin in Bandon.

                                                      Can you see the sea lions?

 More sea lions down the coast from Charleston, Oregon. We stopped to take pictures and heard the racket. It sounds like a dog pound.

 The hill in the left background is Cape Arago, claimed by the locals to be the farthest point west in the lower 48 states.

This is Sunset Bay, and it's a beautiful place even on a foggy, misty day. Notice the Spanish moss hanging from the fir tree.
There were quite a few people here digging for clams.

Today we took the car, but motorcycle riders were out there. The temperature is in the 50s and low 60s, but I am a fair weather rider (and so is John- thank God). Day before yesterday we rode and it took me 24 hours to warm back up. Standing in the sun is fine but moving 55 mph- the speed limit on 101- can get old fast.

We have been hitting antique stores throughout our trip looking for juicers/reamers. When I developed a fondness for mojitos, John bought me my first glass juicer in a Kansas City antique shop. I introduced my friend Brenda to mojitos, and she managed to get her hands on a green depression glass reamer that her brother-in-law claims as his. Well, that green glass was so cute I had to have one of those too. Little did we know it would become an obsession. Today a very friendly and helpful woman got out her reference book on juicers, and we discovered we've done very well in our collecting. Today we scored another pink glass one, and got a bargain too. After buying a jadite reamer we've bought jadite salt and pepper shakers, so it appears to be a disease that is mutating. Martha Stewart (the Anti-Christ if you ask me) collects jadite and has driven the market up by talking about it on her show!