Lunch Out

The road leads north, about seven miles to a restaurant where the food is good and the windows overlook the ocean where there are rocks in the form of a whale. It is a seven mile drive, north, on 101 to get there and is actually a resort with hundred of cabins built into the mountain foothills. We have been there several times with our birthday friends and have enjoyed the fish and chips, or a special dish. The chowder is very good, made so you taste the clams and not thick and tasteless. Some folks just do not know how to make New England style clam chowder. I notice they use bacon instead of salt pork which would help to give it the proper flavor, but, again, it wasn't at all bad.

The weather was beautiful, perfect for taking pictures and I tried to shoot a picture out of the window then thought better of it and went outside. They have a huge Totem of beautifully carved whales which you can see one close up in the picture. There is a wooden patio area to walk out on that overlooks the small garden area, and a better view of the ocean. The garden flowers are of the wild flower varieties and grow tall to blow in the wind. Some curl around the rocks which are huge and embedded in the gardens.

As you can see in the picture of the whale in the ocean, this rock formation is huge. The beach itself is really lovely to walk on and you have to cross the incoming river to get onto the beach itself. The road leading down into the beach area is not in good repair, steep with loose rock and turns as you drive down. It is a good beach to find lots of small pieces of drift wood which people salvage to make baskets and other yard art.

When daughter Pat and I decided to have lunch out yesterday, our plan was to buy a Subway vegie delight sandwich and picnic over by the Chetco River to watch the brown pelicans basking on their rocks. Subway was understaffed and we waited patiently, but after ten minutes with no one paying attention to the car orders, we decided to leave and go elsewhere. We could see the counter space was filled with people waiting for their sandwiches and knew our chance was low man on the totom pole. Whaleshead came to mind . . . not a bad idea at all. There were no pelicans to see but the view is spectacular. As you can see from the pictures we didn't miss anything. I did take a picture of the entire totem pole but it came out sideways and I don't know how to change it. Probably something simple but some people are computer illiterate.

So treat yourself to lunch today and drive off to a special restaurant in your area. Hopefully where the food is good and the ambiance beautiful. Take time to see the changing of the leaves on the trees as it looks like we are going to have an early winter. Son Michael tells me he has four inches of snow up there in Nevada already. Hey, they have snow near the skiing area in Ashland which is about a three hour drive, inland, from here. So the heat is on, the air is colder and the holidays are coming. I know, I know, bite my tongue, it's much too soon.