After leaving Astoria Ryan
& I realized that there were quite a few activities & locations we failed to take advantage of while there. With only four months to go before we are transfered again we are scrambling to see all the "hot spots" of Florence before it's too late. So last week we went to Hobbitt's Beach. I had heard so many great things about the beach from friends. I was told you can collect a ton of shells, the path to the beach ends with you emerging out of a earthin hole, hence the name of the beach, & it has easy access (this really peaked my intrest because not so long ago Ryan took me to a beach where we had to use ropes off the side of a cliff to access!)
& I realized that there were quite a few activities & locations we failed to take advantage of while there. With only four months to go before we are transfered again we are scrambling to see all the "hot spots" of Florence before it's too late. So last week we went to Hobbitt's Beach. I had heard so many great things about the beach from friends. I was told you can collect a ton of shells, the path to the beach ends with you emerging out of a earthin hole, hence the name of the beach, & it has easy access (this really peaked my intrest because not so long ago Ryan took me to a beach where we had to use ropes off the side of a cliff to access!) Aside from the evening of our reception I have never in my life been to a beach when it was so warm & calm, not even in Hawaii. It was such great weather. And because we had to hike 1.5miles in & out the weather was especially a blessing. We found some nice tufts of beach grass to spread our blanket on, left our picnic basket, one of our fav. wedding presents, & went exploring. I was so happy to see an outcropping of rocks where tidepooling was a probability, I have really missed tidepooling latley, and just my luck there were lots of pools stuffed with anenemis.
Of course we had to take
a picture in front of the Hobbitt Hole. After ten minutues of trying to create a tripod out of drift wood a lady offered to take our picture. I must say her's turned out much better than ours.
a picture in front of the Hobbitt Hole. After ten minutues of trying to create a tripod out of drift wood a lady offered to take our picture. I must say her's turned out much better than ours. We strolled the beach, did some sand carving, & ended our day with a picnic under the emerging rain storm (that most likely accounted for the great weather), how romantic minus the stringy wet, wind blown hair.
Oh, & on the drive back home we had a little adventure too. Ryan is always on the look out for free crap on the side of the road and I do mean crap. One time he saw a cardboard box, got curious, stopped, looked inside & decided it was worth lugging home. It was full of tapes, not CD's tapes, from 80's hair bands. On this particular day he spots a binoculars case on a guard rail. A guard rail that was on a corner of the road with no pull out. So hoping it was full of an expensive pair of binoculars he turns around drives back up the road where I figure he will park the c
ar on a turnout & walk back down to the guardrail. Much to my horror he starts briefing me on his plan involving me as the recoverer. He tells me I have to be quick because he can't really stop on such a sharp corner & because we can't see the traffic coming until they are right there on us. And while we wait for the traffic in both directions, the traffic we can see, to clear he's saying, "You've got to be fast. You have to be really fast." And at this point I am scared for my life but I go along anyway. Once we can't see any traffic coming either direction he hauls the Expo' back down to the corner where the prize awaits, yells, "Hurry, get out." And I'm off, out of the car, grab the case, run for my life & jump back in the car.... and... the case... is EMPTY. Was it worth it?... Oh, yes. Because for those few minutes that I thought my life might be rapidly drawing to a close, I reinforced in Ryan's mind that I AM still the coolest chick he knows. And that is priceless.
ar on a turnout & walk back down to the guardrail. Much to my horror he starts briefing me on his plan involving me as the recoverer. He tells me I have to be quick because he can't really stop on such a sharp corner & because we can't see the traffic coming until they are right there on us. And while we wait for the traffic in both directions, the traffic we can see, to clear he's saying, "You've got to be fast. You have to be really fast." And at this point I am scared for my life but I go along anyway. Once we can't see any traffic coming either direction he hauls the Expo' back down to the corner where the prize awaits, yells, "Hurry, get out." And I'm off, out of the car, grab the case, run for my life & jump back in the car.... and... the case... is EMPTY. Was it worth it?... Oh, yes. Because for those few minutes that I thought my life might be rapidly drawing to a close, I reinforced in Ryan's mind that I AM still the coolest chick he knows. And that is priceless.
FINALLY! FINALLY a new post! Did you know I live on this stuff at work???? Keep em coming girl!
ReplyDeleteHow's that Megan. Two in 24 hours. You are looking great anymore. You have some commitment to stick to that diet & shoot yourself up everyday!
ReplyDeleteHobbit beach is awesome. Joe and I found a TON of sanddollars there. Glad you had fun. Very cute story, and cute post. Totally reminds me of Joe. While on our honeymoon Joe took me on a hike, and ended up straying off course up the river and had me jumping from rock to rock. Then we run into a random fisherman who asks if we are trying to get to the waterfall. He then points out that the trail is "up there". Up the side of a cliff, which Joe and I ended up scaling!
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