Shore Acres Garden
We left for Bullards State Beach today, but it was only 25 miles away. We didn't have to be out of our campsite until 1:00, so we drove to Shore Acres State Park to walk through the gardens. But on the drive to Shore Acres, a warning light told us we had low tire pressure in one of the Explorer's rear tires. It was only a few pounds low, so we decided to go to Shore Acres anyway. We couldn't take the chance that a tire store couldn't repair it until after we had to be out of our campsite.
The Shore Acres Garden is always great, but mid-summer isn't its best season. We enjoyed shooting the buildings with the plantings in the foreground, but our favorite area was around the pond. It had good reflections and the sun was shining, so we shot it from every conceivable angle. We took a quick walk out to the cliffs to look up and down the coast with the few minutes we had left. We were there as the high tide was coming in, so there were some interesting waves, and the sandstone cliffs were lit.
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We wanted more time to photograph the garden, so we drove back to the campground, hooked everything up, and drove to a big parking lot at Sunset Bay. We parked the motorhome and then returned to Shore Acres. Carol returned to shoot the pond area again, and I walked back down to the coast to shoot the waves. Some of the biggest waves in Oregon hit the coast here during the winter storms, so these waves were relatively small, but they were still fascinating.
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Drive to Bullards Beach State Park
By 3:00, we were ready to head south. We returned to Sunset Bay, hooked up to the motorhome, and drove to Bullards State Beach. It was one of the nicest state beach campgrounds of the trip, and we got a great site. After everything was set up in our campsite, we drove to Bandon Beach to check the tides and re-familarize ourselves with the area. But when we reached the beach, it was totally socked in with clouds. There was nothing to see in that lighting, so we returned to camp for the evening. It will be great to have Internet access again; especially for checking tides.
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