Fog in the Morning

We awoke on Monday to clear skies but the fog soon rolled in. We could barely see the ocean. But as the morning progressed, the sun began to fight the fog. The sun eventually won, but the fog put up a good battle. Frequent showers are forecast for Tuesday (which will be laundry day at the condo).

Pretty casual day. We drove north into Lincoln City, detouring by Devil’s Lake which we didn’t see last year because the entry roads were all flooded. It’s a big lake, but it is mostly surrounded by nice homes and there isn’t a lot to see. We didn’t stop for pictures.

We did stop at Taft Beach in the Taft Historic District of Lincoln City.  We did take pictures there.

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In Lincoln City we picked up supplies at Safeway before picnicking at Boiler Bay once again.

Boiler Bay is named after what remains of one of the most spectacular shipwrecks in American history. On May 18, 1910, the wooden steam schooner J.Marhoffer was still practically brand-new and was coming back to her home port in Portland from a run to San Francisco when an assistant engineer, working on a gasoline-burning blowtorch, accidentally overpressurized it and blew the thing up. Today, the ship’s boiler can still be seen from the highway at low tide.  Depoe Bay residents had come flocking to the top of the bluff to watch. Still under full power and trailing a column of smoke and fire like a volcano, the freighter piled into the rocks with an enormous crash. The stranded vessel keeled over and burned fiercely for a time; then she was ripped apart by a massive steam explosion that threw chunks of wood and iron in all directions. Fortunately, none of the spectators were hit, although today there’s still a piece of iron pipe sticking out of the bluff above that probably came from the wreck. The whole history is here, and some of this paragraph is plagiarized from that site.

At 4:30 PM (low tide) we walked back to Boiler Bay to see if we could see the boiler in the water. We couldn’t, but a local told us where it was and that it would probably be visible at low tides later in the week when negative low tides will be happening.

Cocktails on the deck were without sunshine for the first time, and it actually started to drizzle as we imbibed. Dinner was at Tidal Raves once again. We split crab cakes for an appetizer. Then Elaine had the scallop special while I had the Dungeness crab casserole. All was yummy. I brought my camera to take pictures of the food. I got a picture of the views out the window at our table and then forgot to photograph the delectable dishes. Oh, well.

I’ll probably take a day off from blogging tomorrow, so I’ll be back on Wednesday morning. Cheers!