Saturday October 16th (Whale sightings)

Cape Lookout State Park to South Beach State Park

70 miles

Today we had a nice casual drive down the Oregon Coast. The highlight of today would have been from one of the many scenic lookouts that we stopped at and saw Grey Whales swimming along the coast; the whales were also heading south. South Beach State Park is another massive campground nearly 300 sites, but the nice thing is that there is plenty of space between the sites and lots of green area and trees. Between the camp and the ocean in the sand dunes there is a pave trial where we rode our bikes. It was particular nice as we were in the trees and protected from a strong northerly wind. There were several people kite surfing, which was fun to watch. In the evening the couple camped next door to us invited us over to share their camp fire with them and their dog Larry. Thad and Misty were from Wenatchee Washington, and were taking their 1983 Volkswagen van on it first trip since putting in a new engine.