8/26/22017 - A Day around Lincoln City

Saturday - We spent some time down on the dock this morning, watching the fishermen.  We saw two nice salmon brought in, an 18 lb, and a 13 lb.  They came in off the fishing boats that continually wander past, and a group are anchored just up around the bend.  In the afternoon, we saw another one brought in, about 25 lbs. 

He was quite intrigued with the whole process, and walked down the dock to look over their gear.

There are a couple of harbor seals who regularly patrol this area right in front of our dock.  We've seen them several times.  They probably don't help the salmon fishing.

The guys cleaning the second one were very talkative, and Joe had lots of questions.  He even took a bite of the fresh salmon (which stayed with him all day).  He finally asked permission to board their boat and check out their gear, so I guess he became "authorized personnel."  We spent most of the day debating about whether to try to fish here tomorrow, looked at tackle at the office here at the campground, talked to folks.  Ultimately, we decided we would probably be wasting our money so we didn't make a plan to fish.  Hot salmon fishing on this river apparently is in September, so we will just watch the other folks.

We decided to drive into town and get the laundry taken care of.  The campground only has one washer and one dryer, so that would be an all-day process here.  We had breakfast at the Pig N Pancake, which apparently didn't settle well with me because I had a stomach ache after that which lasted the rest of the day.  Traffic in Lincoln City is awful.  There is one section that narrows down to one lane for each side, and traffic really gets backed up.   But we did find a statue of Abraham Lincoln reading the bible on a horse.

We drove down to one rocky beach, but it was windy and chilly, so we didn't get out to walk it.

Back at the campground, we decided to rest for a while.  They have a glassed-in patio here that would have been great for playing cards, but again, our card-playing buddies aren't with us now.

We really have a premiere campsite -- No. 2, right in front of the dock and the river.

We had seen signs in town for Moe's, the best clam chowder in town.  And it was on our end of town, so we decided to have dinner there. Parking was a problem, but after our second pass, we did find a spot.  And the line for dinner stretched way out the door, but it was only about a 20-minute wait.

Joe had his seafood dinner, cabbage salad with shrimp, clam chowder, and fried oysters.  (I had chicken alfredo).  He said the chowder was good, but not as good as he had in Chinook at the Roadhouse.

We drove south along the coast as evening set in, drove into some pull-offs, and got to see a great sunset.

We got back to camp about 8:30, and I decided to go to bed pretty quickly, still with my stomach ache.  After our naps in the afternoon, neither of us slept well, but this morning I'm fine so whatever I ate must have passed on through.  Today we are going to drive south in the car and explore that area before we move south tomorrow in the motorhome.