Bullards Beach State Park adjoins the Coquille River, and where it empties into the ocean is the Coquille River Lighthouse. At the lighthouse there is a good view of the mouth of the Coquille River as it empties out through the jetties into the Pacific.
All the debris that has washed ashore over the years in the Pacific storms is amazing - just tons and tons of driftwood, limbs, huge tree trunks, etc. From the jetty all the way up the beach for several hundred yards it looks like a huge junk yard from a big saw mill.
We have more birds in our campsite in this park than we’ve had for awhile. We have Cedar Waxwings, Stellar’s Jays, California Quail, California Towhees, White-crowned Sparrows, and a couple of Red Crossbills.
Today, Thursday, we went to Shore Acres and Cape Arago near Charleston, Oregon. Shore Acres State Park is perched on rugged sandstone cliffs overlooking the ocean. It was once the grand estate of timber baron Louis Simpson. The original manor house is gone, but there is still the caretakers cottage and lushly planted gardens featuring flowers from around the world - something in bloom almost every day of the year. There is also an oriental-style pond, a formal garden, and two rose gardens.
Just down the road from Shore Acres is Cape Arago - another day-use state park. The big draw here is the rocky shore line and Simpson Reef which is a bunch of massive rocks out in the water that are usually covered with sea lions. Today was no disappointment - there were hundreds of them. The best we could tell, there were both the Stellar Sea Lions and the California Sea Lions.
Tomorrow we’re moving again - we’ve pretty well done the Oregon Coat, so we’re going to start heading back east. We’ll let it be a surprise as to the way we go.
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