Days 15 and 16 (Saturday wk 2, Sunday wk 3)

Day 15 We took Hwy 299 out of Redding to McKinleyville, got on Hwy 101 (Pacific Coast Highway), and rode to the Redwood Forest, which is one of our favorites. It is so peaceful and everything grows so huge that it is like being in another world. The trees, of course, are huge but the ferns and all the shrubs around them are huge, too! There were several trails you could walk that takes you into the forest away from the road. That is where it is really peaceful!


Our next stop was Crescent City, where we spent the night. We ate at the Good Harvest Café. We both had fish and chips, which is their featured food. It was a little better than Long John Silvers.

Day 16. We left Crescent City for more riding on the Pacific Coast Highway. We made it to Bandon, Oregon, before we stopped to eat lunch. We remembered eating fish and chips at the Bandon Fish Market on the boardwalk from our previous trip. We found it again! We ate fish and chips again! This was fresh cod with chips and a slice of garlic toast that was really good. The portions are so big, we should have shared a box because we had to throw some of it away.


We left Bandon headed toward Crater Lake, but saw a sign that the Sea Lion Caves were only 60 miles away, so we took off for there. We stopped at the tourist trap where we had to pay $20 to walk down to where we could see the sea lions sunning and barking on the rocks below. There must have been hundreds of them (well, maybe not that many!). We went down in an elevator 200 feet to the inside of one of the caves where they go when there is bad weather or to just get inside. It was pretty interesting to see how they congregate. There was an archeological site of a skeleton of a sea lion inside the cave. There was also a window we could look out to see the Heceta Lighthouse, a really pretty one on a high rock jutting out into the ocean.


When we left the caves, we rode a few yards to where we had stopped on our last trip when there were hundreds (well, again, maybe not that many) sunning and barking below the pulloff that we found just by chance. We were a little disappointed this time because there were not that many to see below the pulloff. They must have all been up at the tourist trap waiting to get their pictures taken! LOL Anyway, we really enjoyed seeing and hearing them.


We had to backtrack a few miles to get on the highway that would take us to Crater Lake. We have stopped for the night in Roseburg, Oregon, just 90 miles from Crater Lake. We enjoyed our supper on the patio outside our room and what a view we enjoyed! There is a river running by just outside and the weather was very pleasant. Very relaxing!