Well we have “found ourselves” somewhere half way down the Oregon coast at Christmas.

You can see from this picture how MUCH the agates just pop out when they are wet AND the sun is shining. The Sunshine gets behind them and I guess through the refraction of light they emit light in all directions, little lightbulbs. We have been SOOO Lucky to have been here for 4 days and 2 of them have been Sunny and no wind. I am sure that this is the sum total of our allotment of sunny wind free days, so time to move on🌞. Finding agates on a beach has a unique kind of pleasure that goes beyond the simple finding of another rock. I believe that it hits you smack in the middle of your pleasure centre, and lasts for awhile….  I am on a page on Facebook called Oregon beach gravel reports. The reason for this is that a totally sand beach is of no interest to a rock collector. That is mainly the case in the summer. However after a few of the winter storms get their claws into the sand and drag it out to sea, the gravel gets exposed, and agates are part of that gravel. Each day the high tides wash over the gravel rearranging the stones and putting some of the agates on top to be found by rock hounders like us.🙂

We DID find ONE gravel beach up here. This is Taft beach in Lincoln city. One of the few beaches we hunt for agates where there are lots of other people. I guess because this beach is so easily accessed right in the middle of a city.

We are usually tied to campground camping while in Oregon, because with our solar panels and batteries, there is not enough sun, this time of year to keep the batteries charged. But this year we have a new battery, a self heating lithium battery, so we can make better use out to the sun on the solar panels. A full charge on this batter can last several days with very little sun. We do not prefer boon docking (camping OFF GRID) just to save money from Campgrounds we also prefer to stay out in the open, not crammed in with other RVS. We find that we usually get better views and tucker is such a “country dog” and does not always “play well” around lots of other dogs. 🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺

Oddly, my obsession with crocheting toques has continued… (often obsessions wear out over time 🙂 ) But I DID get bored with one colour toques so have expanded into multicoloured toques and am working on improving the transitions between colours without leaving irregular lines. It really is trial and error for me. We did sell several of them over the summer at the farmers Market in Sorrento, and pretty much all of my family and friends have one or two of them, and of course I have now a special part of my closet that has been made into a place to store different colours of yarn…. and all the toques I have made… What can I say… it is just how obsessions go.

Now THIS was a very surprising place to see a new house coming up. With all of our walks down beaches, we are seeing more and more places that seem to be on the edge of falling into the sea, it just seemed odd that one could build in such a precarious, at risk spot. I guess it is a sacrifice to the sea gods🐟🧜🏼‍♀️🪸…. or …. to Mother Earth to appease her.🌎🌎.

I just have to post a tiny video of the snowy plovers, always love watching them and the way they skitter around the beach

Merry Christmas from somewhere in the Oregon coast from Janet, Ken and tucker the beach dog….