Coos Bay - not quite Newport

Well time to catch up a couple of days.

We left Brookings Sunday, 5/19 and made it to Coos Bay at about 4:30pm. The weather was great again and the entrance to the bar was not challenging because the seas were good and we entered on a flood tide. As promised here are some pictures of a great sea on Saturday and some of a gray foggy day that we had on Sunday.


We tried to head out to Newport this Tuesday 5/20, morning at 5:00am and two hours into it the weather was getting more intense as we went further north. It was starting to gust around 20 knots, seas were good, but becoming choppy. We also knew that it would get worse in the afternoon. Not wanting to slog through 12 hours of uncomfortable rolling seas and take a beating just to get to Newport, we turned back to Coos Bay. We called on friends on Pier Pressure, the 93 foot beauty, and they had left Florence, four hours south of Newport, and the seas and wind had caused severe and continuous rolling which were very uncomfortable for them. So again, we made a good call as we would have to have dealt with the seas and wind in our little 42 foot NuMoon. We had planned to have a rental car in Newport and drive to Trawler Fest, and were able to arrange a rental car in Coos Bay. We will be driving to Anacortes Washington in the next two days. We were driving by 2:00pm today, Tuesday, 5/20 and made it to Portland before we decided to stop for dinner and a hotel.

Tomorrow we head to Anacortes, by land, which is about 240 miles by car. We are treating ourselves to a very nice stay in a B&B in Anancortes called Autumn Leaves. It appears charming with antiques and a fireplace. Looking forward to the fireplace!!!Will post pictures. Good night and best to all.