The Oregon Dunes

I was surprised to find that Oregon had sand dunes....BIG sand dunes!  We happened to find a RV park outside of Florence, OR that backed right up to the dunes. Another pleasant surprise was to see this herd of Elk grazing in a field alongside the highway as we approached town.

 Florence is a very nice quaint little town with a marina that caters mostly to fishermen. We went into town looking for fresh seafood.  Couldn't locate any oysters but did find some Albacore Tuna filets that were excellent! We also met this cute little fellow.

  Several places around town rent dune buggies.  Diane and I, along with Bonnie and Roger (Kokomo) rented a couple buggies for an hour and hit the dunes.  I was rather intimidating at first as you felt like the buggy was going to do a back flip on the way up and a front flip on the way down!  The buggies were nice rides.  Four wheel drive, all wheel independent suspension and pretty decent power.

We took Tinker for a "dune walk" a couple times.  She must have thought she was back in the Bahamas on the sandy shore.  She took off running...flat out.. and came back smiling.  Everyone enjoyed our time there, but it was time to move on...again.