Scenes from the Oregon Coast Steam Train

FIRST NOTE... You can left click on a picture to enlarge it, and then hit the Esc key to return.  I'm not sure about the first picture which I stole from the OCST website.

Yesterday Becky and I did our budgeted "One Day A Year Touristy Outing" by hopping aboard the Oregon Coast Steam Train that runs between Garibaldi and Rockaway Beach some 7 or 8 miles up the coast.  At 15mph it's a 30 minute train ride and to quote a anonymous six year old fellow passenger.."this is the funnest thing ever".

So most of the following pics will go on their own merit.  Enough said..

"Hollywood" has nothing on "G"aribaldi!

That's our RV Park

One of my fishing / crabbing piers

This young lady seemed to enjoy the train as is passed by

 The KIDS really, really enjoyed the ride.  Becky and I really, really enjoyed the ride!

The locals call this "White Rock" - can you figure out why?

Seeing the marker buoys reminded me of being in Maine - but these are Dungeness Crab Pots

Pretty sure this is a fresh water lake - but just beyond the trees is the Pacific

Can you see the "subjects" of this picture?  If not go to the next picture and enlarge it.

How Becky spotted this family is beyond me.. but I was able to get a quick shot of them!

A hint of an upscale housing development caught between the lake and the deep blue sea - nice!

Just pulling into the end of the line - Rockaway Beach - this guy has a twin at the station ahead!

Rockaway Beach Main (Only) Drag

Don't know if Jesus was here ... but those sure are Holy Rocks in the background!

A picture is worth 1,000 words - right?  Well in this case... This picture needs a few words.  The two characters with Becky are Alice and Lee.  We met them back in February 2009 when we pulled into our very first RV Park in Port Aransas, Texas.   Alice and Lee had just bought their first "fulltiming" 5th Wheel RV - the same rig as ours.  There was another new to fulltiming couple there also, Bob and Donna, also with their rig identical to ours.  So the six of us hit it off pretty well and we have kept in touch through the past 3+ years.  Anyway.... Alice and Lee were visiting family here in Oregon, about an hour or so away and decided to surprise us with an unannounced visit.  Of course as I mentioned, Becky and I were off on our once a year touristy thing so they called us, drove up to Rockaway Beach, and we visited there at the train station as we waited for the train back to Garibaldi.  Whew..... that comes close to 1,000 words doesn't it?  Any case, thanks for the visit and we hope to see yas down the road again.

End of the line arrival.  End of the line is appropriately named because there is no "turn around" for the train (for us Railroad Engineers it's called a Round-about).  And so the return trip to Garibaldi is backwards.

And that's all I've got to say about that!