Ashleigh visits the Elk & the Coast

Here we are at the Dean Creek Elk Viewing area just East of Reedsport...as you can see the weather is not great today & elk are scarce on the ground.

Here is Riley & Cieira standing in front of a huge poster of an elk...it also tells some information on them.

Here is the welcome tile at the entrance to the little viewing building. There's lots of other wildlife besides elk here, there are duck, geese, frogs, various & assorted non-water birds, insects...

You can see some ducks splashing around here in the background...they're the little black dots.

And, we found some elk...they're way back by the tree line & look like hay clumps in this picture. Also, more ducks frolicking.

Then we went to Winchester Bay. This is the view of the getty from the lighthouse.

Look at the white caps...

And here's the Umpqua River Lighthouse. It's also part of the Coast Guard station here.

Here are Riley, Cieira, and I in front of the lighthouse & the informational sign about it. Today is the first day of Spring Break, so of course it's raining. But, Michelle says we live on the Oregon coast, if we wait for nice weather to do anything, we'd never do anything!

There's a whale watching station across the street from the lighthouse, but this is the wrong time of the year to see whales migrating...there might be Orcas out there though.