May 3-5 2024 Cape Blanco, Oregon

 High of 51, heavy rain and wind.

We are now camped at Cape Blanco state park. It is raining very hard. We got wet setting camp up. I went to the beach overlook around sunset, in the rain. No sunset. No beach either, the tide was in. 

Rain in the campground. Countryside view in the rain. There is a reason it is sooo green here. 

We stopped at Bandon Brewing, John with his Facerock double IPA. I had a chocolate peanut butter porter.  Welcome to old town Bandon. 

We stopped at Misty Mountain to see if they had any cranberry wine, but no such luck, But John found a bear chair. In the season you can pick blue berries here, but not today. 

We stopped at Vines Art Glass so I could look at beautiful glass. Bryce Dimitruk does beautiful work. John thought he got kale, but it was actually mustard green, looks the same. Will see how it is in salad. The reason we went to Bandon was to go to Bandon Rain cidery. I had a glass of cranberry cider in Brookings. It was so good I wanted to buy some, but you can only get it at the cidery. So I picked some up. Bandon is know for it's cranberries, here is a cranberry bog along the road. And a rhododendron blooming in the campground. 

We had lull in the rain so I walked down to the beach. There was  really cold wind in my face and it started to rain again, so I went back. Butter cups and skunk cabbage blooms near the beach. 

The sun came out at dinner time, so we had dinner at the picnic table. I went to the beach overlook to see sunset. This was lovely, but the real showy clouds were on the other side of the cape by the lighthouse. . 

I made a few more wire wraps. I picked up a booklet on the tree of life wrap, and here it is with my dichroic glass. Pretty cool looking. High of 53,  very windy and partly rainy/sunny. Tjis evening for sunset we walked almost all the way to the lighthouse. It was too windy on the cape, so we came back. There were dark clouds to the west, but some of the higher clouds had a little color. John on the trail ahead.

Informational sign at the lighthouse. View to the north of the cape.

Wild iris and coastal angelica. View of looking farther north with angelica. 

I made a couple more wire wraps today with my beveled, polished dichroic glass pieces.