Finders Keepers...

Happy Easter!

We spent most of the morning inside just relaxing, doing mail, and watching the waves. I think we both needed a quiet day. A lot of the other RV's left this morning and we are pretty much the only ones here.

Later in the afternoon we took a ride about 15 miles north on 101 to Lincoln City. At first look Lincoln City seems a bit honky-tonk, with restaurants, salt-water taffy stands, and outlet shops. This is a larger beach town and really has a lot to offer. It's "a great place to try new things". We had hoped to go to a studio where we could blow our own glass floats. Unfortunately they wanted $65 each to do this so we decided to pass.

Lincoln City has favorable winds for kite flying and takes advantage of it through annual summer and fall kite festivals. In March the city hosts an 'indoor' windless kite festival. Unfortunately the wind is still too strong and we missed the indoor festival by a week....oh well....next.

We drove through Main Street and enjoyed shops and a number of art galleries. Lincoln City has become a center for glass art. Each year from mid-October through May 30 more than 2000 signed, numbered, and handcrafted glass floats are hidden along 7.5 miles of public beach. They hide 65 floats a week (a few each day) ocean permitting. This started in 1999 for the mellenium and is kicked off by the Finders Keepers Festival each October. It is a reminder of the history of finding Japanese glass fishing floats on the beach - some of which floated in the pacific for more than 30 years. A Japanese float is rare now, but a mellenium float is much more common. Due to the storm we didn't have a chance to hunt.

Lincoln City runs along the coast from Siletz Bay past Devils Lake on the north. We drove over D River, which connects Devils Lake and the Pacific Ocean. The river is listed in Guinness Book of Records as the world's shortest river at 120 feet.

Turning back into town we took the back roads along the beach and was surprised to find the Chinook Winds Casino. With beautiful ocean views we grabbed a bite to eat and then played for a while and then headed home.

It was a good day...