Winchester Bay, OR

View of the mouth of the Umpqua River from our site

Salmon harbor at Winchester Bay, OR

We're having a great stay at Winchester Bay.  The RV park is beautiful and gives you views of the Umpqua River or Salmon Harbor depending on where your site is located.  We're fortunate to have the mouth of the Umpqua River out the back window.

 We've found great crab cakes and shrimp within easy walking distance

Ocean waves roll up the river 

of our site.  Reedsport (about 5 miles north) is good for supplies and has that old seaport village feel. North Bend/Coos Bay is about 25 minutes south and is a bigger metropolis with more services. Donna found a nice Curves & yarn shop there. If you're familiar with the northeast coastal villages, these towns will seem the same.  Just the ocean is on the wrong side as my Dad would say.

Different perspective of the waves moving up the river

While every turn is a surprise for us, we didn't expect the large sand dunes.  This area is a off-highway vehicle mecca.  And it does look like fun.  If I didn't have to deal with the sand when we got back, we'd probably rented ATVs and had some fun.  Instead we tried experimenting with some videos and emailing them to some folks to see how it'd work.  Biggest issue is taking a video with an Apple product and have someone on a Windows machine view the video correct-side up.

Umpqua River Lighthouse

Outings were to the Umpqua River Lighthouse, a half day trip out to Elkton, OR along the Umpqua River scenic drive, and walks around Reedsport. But the views here at the RV park are so nice, it's easy just to walk the 1.5 mile loop around the park several times a day.

The sand dunes and mouth of the Umpqua River 

Anyway, today is our last full day here.  If all goes well, tomorrow we'll move further north to Lincoln City, OR and set there for a week.  At least that's the plan.  Until it changes.  Later, David

Elk along the Umpqua River

Sunset at "the bay"