Newport-Depoe Bay

Newport-Depoe Bay July 12-14

Newport and Depoe Bay areas are some of our favorite spots.  We are able to trade our Bend house for a VRBO in Depoe so have had time to explore this area the most.  On this trip, we took a side journey to the east through Toledo OR along the Siletz River.  Toledo is still a logging town with the large Georgia Pacific paper mill in operation there.  Only about 3500 people live there so pretty small – just 7 miles inland though from Newport.  Newport harbor is a busy fishing port with great fresh fish.  They also have an aquarium. Our favorite restaurant is Local Ocean just across from the harbor.  If you visit Newport, you have to eat there.  I had to include pics of our lunch.  Clark had a fish and chips and I had the Black Cod served over butternut squash, peppers, mushrooms, white beans and chard with a citrus sauce!  Delicious!  The beach has a little retro area called Nye Beach filled with specialty shops and food. 

The Yaquina Lighthouse is a must see—we have been there before so I took a pic from the beach where we are camped as we did not go up there this time.  We saw whales from here spouting spray as there are around 90 local whales that hang in the waters here—none jumped however while we were watching.