Hi Everyone!
I wished for a hot day and I got it! Sunday it was, yep, 90°F. It was heaven!
I can't be in the sun for too long and not without protection due to lupus. But I did go out and raised my face to the sun for just a few minutes. Mr. M. thought it would be a good day to check out the river.
This part of the river is about 1/2 mile from my house.
Can't see it very well but these are all foxglove growing on the side of the road.
After that very short drive we are there. A few years ago the city came in and put in a new, short walking path along the river.
They fixed the road from pot holes from hell, and put in a retaining wall along with a new walking path. It's pretty nice now.
This is part of the dunes. In fact, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, is the largest expanse of coastal sand dunes in North America
This is just a small part of it.
This is know as the Siuslaw (S I OOs law) river and it is blue, blue, blue. It is also brine and often whales and sea lions can be seen. But not today.
If one keeps gong up the river you will come to the jetty.
Here is the North Jetty beach.
Not my photo. Internet.
The tide pools are amazing. This next photo is mine and it's whats left of the old fishery that used to be here. Large coho salmon runs on the Siuslaw River attracted
many early settlers to the area. The Duncan Cannery opened in 1877 and
was soon followed by numerous canneries which flourished as the fishing
industry grew. In 1894 the William Kyle Cannery was established. Cans
were made by hand in preparation for the fish brought to the canneries
which were cleaned, cut and processed. It was not uncommon for 500 cases
to be canned by a cannery in a single day. Cases of canned fish were
then shipped out on schooners, which often carried 3500 cases of salmon
and 100 barrels of salt salmon for shipment to San Francisco.
1876: The first salmon cannery and fishery opened but closed three years later in 1879 when sand blew into the machinery. Ya know sand dunes and it's flippen windy here.1884: William Kyle opened a successful cannery and store in Florence, processing large amounts of fish.1887: A co-operative cannery was built near the mouth of the North Fork of the Siuslaw.Late 1890s – 1914: Salmon levels dropped too low to maintain profitable commercial operations, leading to successive closures by 1914.1919: The last cannery in the area officially shut down, shifting the area's economic focus entirely to the logging and timber industries. This is us coming home. The next street is ours but I wanted to get all of the flags flying. Can't really see them in this photo. Sorry The entire town had flags in celebration of flag day. The Kiwanis club takes care of this. It's actually pretty impressive.
I almost forgot to show my drink. I do enjoy and ice cold beer on a hot day.
Nicole
