Two pretty normal but unexciting days. Since we’ve seen most everything here we need to see over the years, we are just enjoying being near the ocean.
Friday was overcast all day and rain started around dinner time. We didn’t do much. We went to the Surf Rider Inn located on a bluff above Fogarty Beach for breakfast. I was looking forward to oysters and eggs. No oysters on the menu. Damn them. Instead I had fried razor clams and eggs with has browns, a side of bacon, and toast. Elaine tuck with a more traditional sausage and eggs. Good food in an almost empty dining room with nice views of the ocean. I always loved fried clam (with bellies, of course) and steamed clams. But I had never had Pacific razor clams before. A bit long, a bit tough, but excellent with tartare sauce and a little Cholula hot sauce.
Other than that, we hung around the condo. We watched the second episode of “Murder In – – – “, a French series of murder mysteries. The first took place in Colmar. This one was in Oleron, an oyster raising island on the French west coast not far from the Île de Ré, a similar island where we once stayed.
Saturday was bright and sunny for our walks. Depoe Bay has been relatively quiet during the week, but everything was filled up for the weekend. Again, we had a quiet day. Not a lot of opportunities for pictures. Seamus, my Acura, told me that I needed a new battery in one of my key fobs. It had to be Elaine’s since I more recently replaced the battery in mine. I ordered a two-pack of CR-2032 batteries from Walmart and we drove into Newport to pick them up from curbside pickup. No need to even get out of the car. While in town we stopped at a market and bought some Mo’s clam chowder stock and some milk (and some oyster crackers). We went home and devoured it for lunch. We stopped at Devil’s Punchbowl for a look see but the lot was filled with weekend wind surfers. We’ll go back next week. Cocktails were on the balcony as usual with a nice selection of smoked steelhead and smoked salmon with brie and crackers. Dinner was the rest of the chicken breasts wrapped in bacon that we imported from our stop at Costco in Eugene on the way here.
Tomorrow is another pandemic day. I’ll be back with a blog post on Tuesday morning.
Do not talk to me about clams – my favorite of all seafood except lobster of course!!
Yum!, food inspires me to make something good before the summer heat kicks in.
Colorado is going to get your rain, even snow and now they are talking hail, later today thru Monday. If we had your ocean views and seafood it would make it all tolerable. How did you like the derby results?
Ooh. That breakfast looks so good. And now I’m craving fried clams too, with bellies of course. Haven’t had any since last summer. Your cocktail menus are the best.
You’re having better weather than we are. Like Cindy, we’ve been having rain, snow and wicked winds for a while.
Yum on the food, and the views are magnificent!! Nice and cool……..