Coos Bay is our final stop before we turn the Big Rig around and head for home, sweet South Haven, MI, home. Coos Bay is known for its lumber industry, area beaches and dunes.

We made a stop along the way in Arcata, CA to see the Giant Redwoods. Simply awesome. Walking through the redwoods feels like walking in a fairy tale. Loved it. The first picture demonstrates the sheer size of the redwoods, see if you can find Brian standing at the bottom.

We spent a week at Bay Point RV Park. The RV Park was modern and well equipped with indoor pool, fitness center, table top shuffle board (turns out I am pretty good), game room, outdoor bocce ball and horse shoes. It has several cabins for rent as well as about 15 Airstream trailers for those that don’t tow their own. One of our favorite features was being parked with a bay view. It was fun to watch the tides and when the tides were out, so were the clam diggers. What fun.

We had a great visit with our daughter Monica and her dog Moose. We miss them both so it was good fun to romp with them. Life for Monica is well and good in Portland. Monica and Moose are both outdoor fanatics and if there is a beach, even better. Oregon is the perfect place for them.

Oregon Dunes National Recreation Park has some of the biggest coastal dunes in the world, so of course we visited with newly purchased ATV permit and flag. We drove the beach and some of the dunes, Brian loved this. Fun, but bumpy. At the beach, Moose is rarely without a stick, and loves it more if he has to retrieve it from the water.

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We ate our fill of oysters, clams, fish, and crab before the corona virus restaurant ban was issued. Such fresh seafood was not lost on us.

Brian played golf at Bandon Dunes and Pacific Dunes and loved both courses. The sun managed to shine to top it all off. Beautiful and challenging courses, for sure.

Even though there was much light pollution, I took my first Milky Way shot at around 5:00 am on Friday the 20th. The milky way calendar shows this week to be the first week of the year for good Milky Way visibility on the west coast of the US. As you will see, there is much room for improvement. If you look closely, you can see a little of the Milky Way on a diagonal, which is better than you could see with the naked eye. I’ll keep working and seek dark skies.

That’s a wrap from Coos Bay,

Betty and Brian