I took off for Port Orford Oregon around 10 AM July 2nd. It was an all day drive up Highway 101.
I arrived at my camp spot around 6 PM and tried to drive up the little road on the right that goes to a rock quarry for the state highway,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but.
New gate blocks my camp
They’d put a gate across the road since the last time I was up this way so that didn’t work out.
Camped
Lucky they didn’t block this spot which was close by. It was a bit closer to the highway but would work out for the night.
I parked the van here with the side doors looking out over the Pacific ocean towards Japan.
This was my view out the side doors of the van looking south.
And this was the sunset over the ocean.
I had an uneventful night which is always good.
Next day
The next day I drove on into Port Orford and drove over to Steve’s place to make some plans for doing some exploring.
After having a good bull session I drove on down to the Port Orford boat docks but it was closed because of the virus, to the public. Shoot.
Good camp spot
I continued on to my camp spot where a friend is letting me stay here.
It has a nice babbling brook running by.
Exploring day, 4th
The next day Steve came by and we hopped in my van to go check out some places to hopefully fish.
I knew a place I’d been watching south of town so we drove down that way to have a look and to see if we could get down to the ocean from the highway.
We checked this spot out first but there was no way to get down to the ocean over the cliffs. It did look like some good fishing down there when the tide went out.
Little road
Looking south from that spot I could see this little road going down towards the ocean off the main highway so we drove over there to check it out.
Here’s Steve as we got to the end of that little access road,…………But.
Oh, oh
Steve spotted this sign which said we couldn’t fish here but we could clam. If we wanted to fish we’d need to go back up the road a bit and find a way down which was out of the no fishing zone
This was the ocean view from the end of that little road. The next rocky point you see is out of the no fish zone and the rocky point is called Rocky Point and looked like a good fishing spot, but there was no fishing tackle allowed in the no fish zone so we couldn’t access that point from this spot.
This spot looks like it will work
So we drove back out to the main highway to this spot and got out to see if we could find a way down to the beach and we did.
Rocky Point
We cold get down to the beach and go down to to Rocky Point on the left. If the tide was out we could fish in some of those rocks that are now under water. So it looks like we need to try this spot when we could catch a low tide.
It was good to find at least one spot we could try fishing from so now we had something to do.
Checking on another spot
There was another spot I wanted to check out too. Port Orford Head looked like there might be some good fishing from the ocean shores there if we could find a way down the cliffs to fish.
We drove up to the Coast Guard Museum parking lot and read some of the signs and maps and checked out the trails on the maps. Being the 4th of July the place was pretty busy so we decided to come back another time to do some exploring.
By this time Steve was tired out so we drove on back to my camp spot and rested up for the rest of the day making some plans.
You wouldn’t think it would be so difficult finding a fishing spot with all that water! I’m glad you persisted though and can plan another day to get the hooks in there. Beautiful scenery and views from your campspot on the hill.
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
You wouldn’t think it would be so difficult finding a fishing spot with all that water! I’m glad you persisted though and can plan another day to get the hooks in there. Beautiful scenery and views from your campspot on the hill.