It had stopped raining when we got up on Saturday. That meant we could take our separate walks. (Separate because we go at different speeds and because Elaine likes to go as soon as she gets up whereas I do not.) More importantly, good weather means the Lincoln City Fall Kite Festival was a go! It’s great fun. It’s on the beach and the surf was pounding. A “sneaker wave” came in and swept a young boy off the beach. It could have been a disaster but a Portland firefighter at the festival saw what happened and went in and dragged him out from underwater. A lot of people got soaked by the wave. The show went on. Here are LOTS of videos and pictures. Especially watch the last video. That guy is a kite star. He had performed earlier, but here he was well off to the side just practicing techniques with no one watching (but me).
KITE FESTIVAL VIDEOS
KITE FESTIVAL PHOTOS
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We stayed for a couple of hours and then headed home. Given tomorrow’s forecast, today would be our last chance to enjoy sun on the balcony, so we did. The surf was pounding. We love watching the Pacific.
We went out to dinner at the Bay View Thai Kitchen. It’s really quite good. The servers are delightful and the food is authentic. Elaine had vegetarian red curry with coconut milk, bamboo shoots, eggplant, bell peppers, and basil. I had beef prik khing: stir-fried green beans with bell peppers, basil and red curry paste.. After dinner we stopped in at the eclectic Gracie’s Sea Hag for a cocktail. It’s our go to breakfast place in Depoe Bay, but we were last in the bar two or three years ago. It was like we had never left. It’s the only bar I know with an indoor fire pit. And the same Ray Charles imitator was still performing.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is our last full day in Depoe Bay. Not much planned and the weather looks wet, so there may or may not be a final post. We fly home from Portland on Monday afternoon. Happy Columbus Day to all. Happy Thanksgiving to any Canadians reading this. Back in the day, this was often a weekend spent in Montreal.
WOW I just watched the videos, loved them. That guy is a kite star Joe. The kites were amazing. I liked them all. So love the ocean and the waves. Tell Elaine I could hear her say WOW. Safe travels home ……..
WOW. What a spectacular grand finale to a great trip. Loved all the videos, and I never get sick of surf pics. We’ll be closing up Rye in a couple of weeks so it’ll be a while before we see great surf again.
Have a safe trip home.