Siltcoos

For the last couple weeks we’ve been out of range of cell phone, wifi, etc. at a Lake called Siltcoos near Florence, Oregon. This is wonderful area if you ever get to visit.

We stayed in a US forest service campground on the Siltcoos River which connects Siltcoos Lake to the Ocean. This river is also called the the Siltcoos canoe trail and is about 4 miles long with a small dam portage in between, very pretty. In addition to the beach ride Tracy already talked about we had another great day doing the trail up and back in our kayaks. We also enjoyed a bonfire on the beach, hiking the Siltcoos lake trail and later Cape Perpetua, fishing Siltcoos and the neighboring lake Teehontna (or something like that), visiting the sea lion cave, enjoying Old Town Florence and the fireworks on the 4th and of course playing cards with and generally hanging out with my family (I still haven’t figured out how my father cheats but no one gets a double pinochle that often).

The bonfire on the beach was so isolated Alan was worried we might starve and gallantly decided to sacrifice his brother Torin for the good of the clan.

There are lots of things to do in this area in addition to what we did. Some of the things we didn’t have time to do which sounded fun include: ATV on the sand dunes, take a sea plane ride, kayaking or fishing of the various other rivers and lakes (there are at least 6 of them within 15 minutes of Florence) and in Florence there is typical vacation area stuff including a small live theatre, a fairly large casino, etc. I highly recommend this area for a vacation despite the predominance of nasty, vicious, flying, bloodsuckers (a.k.a. mosquito’s).