Coos Bay Oregon and Cape Arago

Coos Bay Oregon is a quaint old fishing town.  It looks weathered and somewhat run downed.  But driving south of Coos Bay on a finger into the ocean is an area called Cape Arago.  It is naturally beautiful with tree lined roads along the Pacific Ocean.

 This area is called Sunset Bay

 This is the Lighthouse at Cape Arago and sits on a rock hill which juts out into the ocean,

Along the Cape of Arago coast there is an area where Sea Lions and Seals rest in the sun soaking it all up. The light colored ones are the Sea Lions and the dark colored ones are the Seals.  You can hear them barking long before you find them sun bathing on the rocks.

Crater Lake and The Rouge River

The morning we left to drive to Crater Lake from Grants Pass the R V Park looked like it was in a cloud.

The road looked just the same.  The whole area was in a cloud.  Really pretty but a little strange to drive in.

Yes folks...there is still snow in them there hills!

Crater Lake was beautiful.  The air was cold  around 41 degrees.

The Lake is at an elevation of 4169 feet give or take but the peaks around it are as high as 8600 feet.  The lake look like a bowl of blue jello.

To see the lake you had to walk up a snowy embankment.  So as I took these pictures Steve was hanging onto my coat tail so I would not slide into the lake.  We met some students from Holland who were on a three week trip through the area. They were interesting to talk with and I took their picture for them all stand at the edge of Crater Lake.



The Rouge River rambles through southern Oregon and is usually a wide meandering rafting river but....
coming down from the Crater Lake area the river sources through a gorge about 500 feet long and is quite a site.

The drive was like being in a tree tunnel;)

Northern California and Southern Oregon

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The drive from northern California to Oregon was beautiful.  

The first site of Lake Shasta

Mount Shasta

It only gets better

These rock formations are called Craigs

The Rouge River in southern Oregon

Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe sits on the California Nevada border.  We drove from California to Truckee California just north of the lake.  The drive to Truckee was very nerve jarring because the road :) was narrow and very twisty.  Pulling the TT was challenging to say the least.  So we left the trailer in Truckee the next day and drove the lake solo.  These pictures represent some of the beautiful scenery around the lake.

 Emerald Bay

Snow can still be seen on the mountain tops.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon NP

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are found north and south of each other in south central California.  Their claim to fame are sequoia trees.  I have included some pictures for you to see.  Sequoia and Kings Canyon have many more sequoia trees than Yosemite but Yosemite's trees are larger which you will see in those pictures later.