36 Year Dream

A MAGICAL FOREST.

Day 45 – We were up before 8 a.m., 51 degrees and sunny. The girls did indeed have plenty of energy last night, bouncing off the walls this morning, literally, as they jumped from their shelf above their carpeted wall. I also take back what I said yesterday – all the campers surrounding our site are leaving this morning. New neighbors will arrive today. We’ll probably be gone before the shuffle begins; got more exploring to do – we think today will be more inland along the Chetco River.

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Day 44 – Rob was up at 7:15; me at 8:15 a.m.  It was sunny and 55 degrees. Another beautiful day. The campsite shuffle has calmed down around us because the people that’ve moved into the ocean-view sites got here a few days ago during the storms and have stayed. Campers still drive by to check out potential sites at the inner loops, but for the most part this area has avoided much of the changing of the guard. People are out-and-about more, certainly with the improved weather, windows & doors are open, and people ride by on bikes, take walks, and just generally make noise, but it’s a good place mostly. Definitely not private & quiet like our previous campground, Quosatana, but hey, you pay a price for the view.

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BLUE SKIES.

Day 43 – Beginning of Week 7. We woke up before 8 a.m., the kitties pouncing on the bed telling us it was time to get up. 58 degrees, SUNNY, beautiful blue skies. We opened windows when it reached 60 degrees, anxious to de-fog the windows so the sun could get thru. Drank our coffee & headed out into the bright new world, kitties lying in the sun on the dashboard of the RV. First we went into town (Brookings) to get the grocery shopping done.

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HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN.

Day 42 – Woke up in the middle of the night & it had stopped raining. Still windy but no rain! Got up somewhere between 8 & 9 a.m. and very windy, no rain. 55 degrees. A few empty ocean-view campsites, no campsite shuffle this morning.

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AND MORE STORMY WEATHER.

Day 41 – It rained HARD during the night; it continues this morning. This rain should put out all fires in the area, we hope. It’s very windy, the ocean crashes below us, the wind whistles thru the trees, the RV shakes from the wind gusts. So far not the huge campsite shuffle of the previous couple of days – everyone is hunkered down. NOT a day to be outside. This will put a damper on people’s weekend plans.

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MORE STORMY WEATHER.

Day 40 – We got up around 7:30 a.m., still raining, 52 degrees. The campsite shuffle started early as people jockeyed around changing sites. The weekend is coming & the campground will surely be full. The wind died down some & it was just raining lightly later in the morning. The waves in the Ocean were very loud and much bigger than we’d seen them before. We decided to take a drive & headed south as the sun occasionally peaked thru the clouds. We paid for another 3 nights here on the way out. Once this weather improves we have lots we want to do in this area.

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STORMY WEATHER.

Day 39 – We got up after 8 a.m. The kitties are now very happy here; there’s electricity & they have their heated pads to sleep on again. It was in the mid-fifties, raining & quite windy when we finally woke up. It had rained steadily all night. People had already starting leaving the Park; the great campsite shuffle began as some people already camping here in smaller non-view campsites moved quickly to the ocean-view sites as soon as they emptied.

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