Oregon Road Trip: Day Six - beach day

We had originally thought we would drive home on Wednesday, July 27th, but we quickly realized after we had made the long trip north that we should take a little more time enjoying Oregon.  This made Wednesday a day to relax and explore.  

We headed north, crossing over the Rogue River via the Isaac Lee Patterson Bridge.  Still love that river.  

Our river guide recommended Arizona Beach, so we decided to check it out first.    

It was beautiful and there wasn't another soul there.  

Tom got pretty relaxed, pretty quickly.  

Father daughter selfie. 

Mussel creek ends at this beach.  

The kids love this kind of beach that has both the ocean's crashing waves and the calm waters of the creek gathering.  

It's no ordinary sand castle when Daddy gets involved.  

Unfortunately, it was a windy day and it began to defeat us, so we packed it up and headed north again.  We ended up at Port Orford.  It was very pretty but also very windy.  

Windy selfie.  

 We had a delicious late lunch at a little fish-n-chips place and then made our way back down to Gold Beach.

We stopped by the beach in front of the hotel and the kids were thrilled to see the stick they had stuck in the sand the day before was still there.

 They pretended it was a microphone.

 It was still windy, so we decided to hang out in the hot tubs for a while.

 We also had some bubble fun on our balcony.

We headed out in the early evening and discovered that the fire hydrants in Gold Beach were golden.  A local offered to take our picture next to it.  I think this is a common occurrence.  

Back to our home away from home.   

 Nothing really beats a taking in the beautiful view from the balcony.

It was a great day that was leisurely and fun.  We didn't have a jam-packed itinerary full of extreme adventuring and endurance hikes.  As enjoyable as it was, I don't think that will be the norm for us.