Today Newport harbor serves mostly commercial and recreational boats. At one time the harbor exported agricultural products hauled by railroad from the Willamette Valley as well as lumber from the sawmills on Yaquina Bay.

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A day trip to Lincoln City took us past Boiler Bay where we got to see this cool wind cave as well as whales out in the water.

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Because the ocean is just across the street from the campground we are able to easily check out the nightly sunsets (if there is one). This particular night there wasn't great color but the reflection on the sand was sure pretty.

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Today found us at the Newport Saturday market. This was probably the best market we've been to this summer. There were lots of veggies - can you believe the size cauliflower they were selling for $2.00! We scooped that up as well as tomatoes, Japanese eggplant and some wonderful fruit.

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While waiting for the sun to go down we got to watch whales feeding off shore. Although we see whales in Southern California as well, it's always exciting to see the spouts.

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Another awesome sunset! What more can one ask for - whale sightings and incredible color?

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How 'bout this for a unique smoker! We also saw another one that looked like a John Deere tractor.

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I decided we should try to get a sunset picture of the bridge from the marina. We found these sport fishermen cleaning their catch of albacore. They had pulled in 14 good-sized fish. Before we left, one of them gave us a baggie of fish which we BBQ'ed the next night. YUM

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Conde McCullough was Oregon's State Bridge Engineer in 1919. He believed bridges should be built economically, efficiently and aesthetically. His bridges are characterized by concrete arches married with Gothic, Tudor and Art Deco details.

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Our day trip today took us on the Otter Creek Loop. A rickety wooden structure crossed Rocky Creek before McCullough's 360-foot long reinforced concrete bridge spanned this chasm. Unfortunately a fog descended on us so our view from Cape Foulweather wasn't!!

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The fog lifted a bit by the time we got to Yaquina Head lighthouse. The light was first lit on August 20, 1873 and was automated in 1966.

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We climbed almost 200 stairs to get to the top of the lighthouse where we were able to watch the bulb activity on the clear Fresnel lens. Each lighthouse has it's own "signature" - Yaquina Lighthouse has all white light with two short blinks followed by a longer no light period.

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A trip to Bayside today gave us an education on the current fishing industry here in town. There are 3-4 packing plants here where fish from the commercial boats are offloaded, flash frozen, packed in boxes and shipped out. It really was quite interesting watching the commercial boats coming in...

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...the sea lions laying on the breakwater making so much noise you could hardly think...

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...and lots of fresh dungeness crab, lingcod, and albacore for sale.

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We have begun to experience some wet weather but the sun began to shine around 6:00 so we made a run for the lighthouse to see if we could get a photo. Unfortunately we didn't get the kind of sunset I was hoping for but we did get a bit of color.

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